54. While shopping, people sometimes can’t help _______ into buying something they don’t really need.
A. to persuade B. persuading
C. being persuaded D. be persuaded
答：C．can’t help doing 为固定用法。
55. When I handed the report to John, he said that George was the person _______.
A. to send B. for sending it
C. to send it to D. for sending it to
答：C．不定式傲定语。“指report，意为“乔治就是我应把报告交给的人。”
56. She can’t help_________ the house because she’s busy making a cake.
A. to clean B. cleaning
C. cleaned D. being deaned
答：A。此处can’t help不能理解为“不禁做某事”，从语境判断应理解为“不能帮助做某事”。
57. Nobody noticed the thief slip into the house because the lights happened to______.
A. be put up B. give in
C. be turned on D. go out
答：D。go out 熄灭， happened to 碰巧。
58. European football is played in 80 countries, ___________ it the most popular sport in the world.
A. making B. makes
C. made D. to make
答：A。现在分词做结果状语指一般情况，必然的结果．而不定式傲结果状语通常表示出乎意料的结果，试比较：
More and more people moved into cities, making them very crowded.
越来越多的人搬到城市里来，(结果)使城市变得非常拥挤。
She went to the station, only to find the train gone.
她到车站时，(结果)发现火车已开走了。
The fish in the river can eat a person within two minutes, leaving only the bones.
河里的这种鱼可在两分钟之内将一个人吃掉，(结果)只剩下骨头。
I went to see her, only to find her out. 我去看她，(结果)发现她已出去了。
59. While working in the garden, ___________
A. his head was hit by a stone
B. a stone hit him on his head
C. a stone hit him on the head
D. he was hit by a stone on the head
答：D．分词做状语时，分词的逻辑主语应和句子的主语一致。