To answer a telephone call, the careless woman went out of the kitchen, ________ the soup ________ over the gas.
A.left; cook B.leaving; being cooked
C.leaving; cooking D.left; being cooked
Curious and ________, I rushed out of my dormitory when I heard the noise of three gunshots.
A.astonishing B.being astonished
C.astonished D.to be astonished
There are some tall trees in our campus, some ________ more than forty meters.
A.measureB.measured
C.measuringD.to measure
People believe that the China Dream is not very difficult ________ so long as the whole nation works hard for it.
A.realizingB.to be realizing
C.realizedD.to realize
These diagrams are especially helpful when we have a concrete problem ________ at hand.
A.be solvedB.to solve
C.solvedD.being solved
At last, we found ourselves at the foot of a hill with trees providing shade and ________ down to eat our picnic lunch.
A.sittingB.having sat
C.to sitD.sat