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XERCISE
1.
Choose the best answer to complete these following sentences
.
1. Astronauts
______
in their spaceship, but they frequently work outside now.
A. were used to stay
B. used to stay
C. were staying
D. had
used to stay
2. People
______
that the earth is round before.
A. were not used to believe
B. used to believing
C. would not use to believe
D. did not use to believe
3. Tuberculosis
______
incurable before.
A. use to be though
t
B. used to be thought
C. used to think
D. use to think
4. Formerly babies
______
of whooping cough.
A. have died
B. used to die
C. would die
D. both B and C
5. These city g
irls are used
______
in the field.
A. to work
B. used to lie
C. would like
D. to working
6. Newton
______
scientific books when a boy.
A. used to read
B. has read
C. had read
D. had been reading
7. I am
sorry I am not
______
fast.
A. used to drive
B. used to driving
C. use to drive
D. use to driving
8. Frank used to work in a small shop. He
______.
A. doesn't any more
B. still does
C. is now
D. had never done anything else
9. Roy Trenton u
sed to work in a small shop. He
______.
A. is driving it
B. doesn’t drive it any more
C. likes it
D. didn’t like it
10. Roy Trenton use to drive a taxi. This means he
______.
A. use to lie
B. used live
C. used to living
D.
used to live
11. I
______
in Jakarta. I've lived here all my life.
A. am used to living
B. used to living
C. use to live
D. am used to live
12. Jane
______
for the telephone company, but now she has a job at the post office.
A. used to working
B. used to work
C. is used to working
D. am used to work
13. This work doesn’t bother me. I
______
hard. I've worked hard all my life.
A. used to working
B. used to work
C. am used to working
D. am used to work
14. Dick
______
a moustache, but
he doesn't any more. He shaved it off because his wife didn't like it.
A. used to having
B. is used to having
C. was used to having
D. used to have
15. When I was a child, I
______
anyone 40 was old.
A. used to think
B. was used to thinki
ng
C. used to thinking
D. was used to think
EXERCISE
2
.
Fill in the blank with “use, used to, be used to, or be used for”
:
1. I often
______
this pen to write my lessons.
2. I
______
love Ann but now she gets on my nerves.
3. There
______
be a
tree in front of my house.
4. They
______
a
computer to do the most complicated calculations.
5. These bricks
______
Building a new s
chool
.
6. That knife
______
cut oranges.
7. American women
______
being independent.
8. Cheques and credit cards
______
storing
wealth.
9. It took me a long time to
______
wearing glasses.
10. Metal and paper
______
making money.
EXERCISE
3
.
Write a sentence for each of the following using used to or didn’t use to
.
1. When Barbara was
i
n
I
taly, she stayed with an Italian
family.
2. I quite like drinking coffee in the morning, although I wasn’t keen on it when I was younger
3. We seem to have lost interest in our work.
4. I don’t mind travelling by train now.
5. I went to the church when I was a child.
6. Since we’ve
lived in the countryside, we’ve been much happier.
7. Mr.
Michel grew tulips but he doesn’t any more.
