Looking Back

Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

1. illiterate
2. occasion 
3. downtown 
4. improve

He has worked here longer than I have, so he has ______ over me.

1. seniority
2. loudspeaker
3. old
4. year

Complete the sentence using "used to"

Liz ____ (have) a motorbike,but last year she sold it and bought a car.

Complete the sentence using "used to"

We came to live in London a few years ago. We _____ (live) in Leeds. 

He always wishes he _____ (be) rich.

I wish they _______ (win) the match last Sunday.

1. won
2. had won
3. would win
4. win

I wish I _____ a lot of interesting book.

1. have 
2. has 
3. had
4. had have

Complete the second sentence so that it has the same meaning to the first one.

Uyen has to stay at home because of her sickness.
She wishes __________.

1. she were not sick because she didn't want to stay at home.
2. she wasn't sick so she has to stay at  home.
3. she weren't sick because she has to stay at home.
4. she wasn't sick because she didn't have to stay at home.

Find one mistake in the sentence.

I wish my father gives up smoking in the near future.

1. wish
2. gives up
3. smoking
4. future

Rewrite the following sentence using "used to" or "not used to".

He started going out in the evening.

We always wish we _______ fluent in other languages. (be)

1. were
2. was
3. will be
4. had been

I've got lots of friends. I don't know many people these days.

1. She used to have a lot of friends, but she doesn't know many people these days.
2. She use to have a lot of friends, but she doesn't know many people these days.
3. She used to have a lot of friends, but she didn't know many people these days.
4. She used to have a lot of friends, so she doesn't know many people these days.

We heard the news over the _______.

1. loudspeaker 
2. louder
3. igloo
4. domed

I can never make up stories - I have absolutely no _______.

1. imagination
2. image
3. imaging
4. imagery

Since my grandparents were farmers, they ______ work in the rice field all day long even without resting on weekends.

1. had to 
2. have had to
3. have to
4. has to