Gerund - Infinitives 1

1. Jane Tate will go far in the film world since she has a remarkable talent for ____ even the most conflicting emotions.

2. Today coffee prices are far below the required rate; hence, growers are unable to pay their debts and cooperatives find it hard ____ .

3. One way of ____ waste is ____ such things as glass and paper.

4. The witness finally admitted that he did remember ____ someone standing by the entrance.

5. The physicist I work with was bitterly disappointed ____ that his experiments had not produced the desired results.

6. Following a noticeable improvement in the general economic scene, unemployment too, seems ____ a turn for the better.

7. The outbreak of fire underground ____ an excellent opportunity for ____ a no smoking rule.

8. Water has a moderating effect on temperature, ____ summer and midday heat, and winter and midnight cold.

9. An acorn, left to itself becomes an oak, and a geneticist ____ its DNA to make it grow into an elm may justly be said ____ with its natural course.

10. This poem is generally supposed ____ in the fifteenth century, but some people date it even earlier.