Answer:
Becoming an FBI Agent is a tremendously difficult and competitive process. It takes years of time, planning, and hard work to mold yourself into the kind of candidate the FBI is looking to hire. It's not going to happen overnight, and the hiring process itself can take a year or longer.
In all of the options you provided, driving would be the gerund.
That which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet.
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