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Snazzy

11. From the archeologist’s perspective, understanding the past is vitally important and requires ______ of earlier cultures.

   (A) the ruins examined

   (B) examining the ruins

   (C) of the ruins to be examined

   (D) that the examined ruins

12. The Texas Legislature selected Vassar Miller _____ in 1982, and again in 1988.

(A) was the state’s poet laureate

(B) as the state’s poet laureate

(C) the state’s poet laureate

(D) become the state’s poet laureate

why? thanks

Snazzy

thanks a lot

but,

1, require + gerund?  i have not found it in longman

2, in longman, it says: select sb as + title

i know : elect sb + title

can u give more light?