________ the past，our life is much better.
| A．Comparing with | B．Be compared |
| C．To compare with | D．Compared with |
New ideas sometimes have to wait for years before ________.
| A．being fully accepted | B．fully accepted |
| C．fully accepting | D．fully being accepting |
．________ bricks，workers press clay into blocks and bake them to the requisite hardness in a kiln.
| A．Made | B．To make |
| C．Being made | D．To be made |
He always dreams of ________ a chance for him to bring into full play his potential.
| A．there being | B．there to be |
| C．there is | D．being |
Some of our industrial products may well be said ________ advanced level.
| A．to reach | B．to be reaching |
| C．to have reached | D．to have been reaching |
Has the boy who was made use of ________ realized his mistakes?
| A．cheating | B．cheated | C．to cheat | D．for cheating |
—O'Neal works hard.
—So he does.He is often seen ________ heavily before his teammates have even arrived at practice.
| A．to be sweated | B．sweated |
| C．be sweated | D．sweating |
Every student in our class had an application form in his hand，but no one knew which office ________.
| A．to send it to | B．to send it |
| C．to be sent to | D．to have it sent |
—Hi，Mary.Would you like to go to the concert this evening?
—Sorry，Tom.________ tomorrow's lessons，I have no time to go out with you.
| A．Not preparing | B．Not having prepared |
| C．Not to prepare | D．Being not prepared |
(2013·潍坊一模)Ang Lee's new film Life of Pi is based on a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel ________ in 2001.
| A．was published | B．having published |
| C．published | D．to be published |