cac dang bai tap ve used to va get used to

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CÁCH SỬ DỤNG
USED TO, BE USED TO VÀ GET USED TO
1. Cách sử dụng Be used to: Đã quen với
Be used to + cụm danh từ hoặc verb-ing (trong cấu trúc này, used là 1 tính từ và to là 1 giới từ).
You are used to do something, nghĩa là bạn đã từng làm việc gì đó rất nhiều lần hoặc đã có kinh nghiệm với
việc đó rồi, vì vậy nó khơng cịn lạ lẫm, mới lạ hay khó khăn gì với bạn nữa.
Ex:


I am used to getting up early in the morning.

(Tôi đã quen với việc dậy sớm vào buổi sáng).


He didn’t complain about the noise nextdoor. He was used to it.

(Anh ta không than phiền về tiếng ồn bên nhà hàng xóm nữa. Anh ta đã quen với nó rồi).
Nghĩa ngược lại của be used to la be NOT used to: không quen với, chưa quen với
Ex:


I am not used to the new system in the factory

yet. (Tôi vẫn chưa quen với hệ thống mới ở nhà máy).
2. Cách sử dụng Get used to: Dần quen với
Get used to + cụm danh từ hoặc verb-ing (trong cấu trúc này, used là 1 tính từ và to là 1 giới từ)
You are used to something, nghĩa là bạn đang trở nên quen với việc đó. Đây là một quá trình của việc dần trở
nên quen với việc gì đó.
Ex:



I got used to getting up early in the morning.

(Tôi đã quen dần với việc dậy sớm buổi sáng.)


After a while he didn’t mind the noise in the office, he got used to it.

(Sau một thời gian không để ý đến tiếng ồn trong văn phịng thì anh ta quen dần với nó.)


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3. Cách sử dụng Used to: Đã từng, từng
Used to + verb chỉ một thói quen hay một tình trạng ở q khứ. Nó thường chỉ được sử dụng ở quá khứ đơn.
a) Thói quen trong quá khứ: You used to do something, nghĩa là bạn đã làm việc đó trong 1 khoảng thời
gian ở quá khứ, nhưng bạn khơng cịn làm việc đó nữa.
Ex:


We used to live there when I as a child.

(Chúng tôi đã từng sống ở đó khi tơi cịn là một đứa trẻ.)


I used to walk to work when I was younger.

(Tôi từng hay đi bộ đến cơng ty khi tơi cịn trẻ.)
b) Tình trạng / trạng thái trong quá khứ: Used to còn thể hiện tình trạng trong q khứ nhưng khơng

cịn tồn tại nữa được thể hiện bằng những động từ biểu hiện trạng thái sau: have, believe, know và like.
Ex:


I used to Like The Beatles but now I never listen to them.

(Tơi đã từng thích nhóm The Beatles nhưng bây giờ tơi khơng cịn nghe nhạc của họ nữa.)



He used to have long hair but nowadays this hair is very short.

(Anh ta đã từng để tóc dài nhưng dạo này anh ấy để tóc rất ngắn.)
Dạng câu hỏi của Used to: Did(n’t) + subject + use to
Ex:


Did he use to work in the office very late at night?

(Anh ta có thường hay làm việc trong văn phòng rất trễ vào buổi tối không?)
Dạng phủ định của Used to: Subject + didn’t + used to
Ex:


We didn’t use to be vegestarians.

(Chúng tôi không từng những người ăn chay.)


We didn’t use to get up early when we were children.

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(Chúng tơi khơng từng dậy sớm khi cịn là những đứa trẻ.)

CÁC DẠNG BÀI TẬP VỀ
USED TO VÀ GET USED TO
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 thought B. used to be thought
C. used to think
4. Formerly babies

D. use to think
of whooping cough.

A. have died

B. used to die

5. These city girls are used
A. to work
6. Newton

C. would die

D. both B and C

C. would like

D. to working

C. had read

D. had been reading

C. use to drive

D. use to driving

in the field.
B. used to lie

scientific books when a boy.

A. used to read
7. I am sorry I am not
A. used to drive

B. has read
fast.
B. used 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 used 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
11. I_

B. used live

C. used to living

D. used to live

in Jakarta. I've lived here all my life.
A. am used to living B. used to living
C. use to live

12. Jane

D. am used to live

for the telephone company, but now she has a job at the post office.

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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
A. used to think

B. was used to thinking

C. used to thinking

D. was used to think

16. Jason

on airplanes. His father is a pilot.

A. used to fly

B. uses to fly

C. is used to flying

D. used to flying

17. Michael

18. I_

19. I

anyone 40 was old.

care of himself. He left home when he was 15 and has been on his own ever since.

A. used to take

B. be used to taking

C. used to taking

D. is used to taking

the piano quite well when I was younger.
A. am used to play

B. used to play

C. am used to playing

D. used to playing

on busy highways in big cities. I've been doing it ever since I learned how to drive.
A. am used to driving B. used to drive
C. am used to drive

20. My feet are killing me

D. used to driving
for long periods of time.

A. don't use to stand

B. am not used to standing

C. didn't used to stand D. am not used to stand

1. C

2. D

3. B

4. D

5. C

6. A

7. B

8. A

9. B

10. D

11. A

12. B

13. C

14. D

15. A

16. C

17. D

18. B

19. A

20. B

Choose the best answer to complete these following sentences.
1. When I was at primary school. My mother
A. takes

B. is taking

2. -“Do you play any sports, Ba?” -“Well I
A. am used to

B. used to

to school every day.
B. used to take

D. is used to taking

play soccer when I was at high school.
C. play

D. am accustomed to


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3. Mr. Ba is a doctor. He

working at night.

A. used to

B. use to

C. be used to

D. is used to

4. Maryam used to walk past the mosque on her way to school.
A. Maryam usually walked past the mosque on her way to school.
B. Maryam was used to walking pass the mosque on her way to school.
C. Maryam walks pass the mosque on her way to school.
D Maryam is going to walk pass the mosque on her way to school.
5. She is used to

early.

A. get

B. getting

6. He didn’t use to

B. working

7. You will get used to
A. send

B. to send
bread.

A. cut

B. cutting

D. worked

C. sent

D. sending

C. to cut

D. to cutting

C. to be deliver

D. to be delivered

C. treating

D. used to treat

early in the morning.

A. to be delivering
10. She isn’t used to
11. Did you

B. be delivered
as a princess.

A. be treated

B. being treated

to the circus when you were young.

A. used to go

B. was used to go

12. That foreigner is used to
A. live

B. to living

A. is used to being

D. was used to going

B. lived

D. living

C. used to going

D. is used to going

C. used to being

D. is used to be

fishing.

A. was used to going B. used to go
14. Long ago there

C. use to go

in a tropical country.

13. When being a boy, my uncle

a banyan tree here.
B. used to be

to each other every month when we were at secondary school.
A. used to write

16. I

C. to work

emails soon.

8. This knife is used

15. We

D. got

in the library.

A. work

9. Milk used

C. to get

B. usually wrote

C. was used to writing D. A and B are right

a packet a day but I stopped two years ago.
A. used to smoke

B. use to smoke

C. used to smoking

D. am used to smoking

17. Ben would travel a lot in his job but now, he doesn't.
A. used to
18. I_

B. use to

C. was used to

D. is used to

to work but now I take the bus.
A. use to drive

B. used to drive

C. was used to drive D. was used to driving


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19. There

a cinema in the town but now there isn't.

A. use to be
20. She

B. was used to

C. is used to

D. used to be

really long hair but she's had it all cut off.
A. would have

B used to have

C. is used to have

D. A and B are right

Choose the best answer to complete these following sentences.
1. I

him but now I do.
A. didn't used to like B. didn't use to like
C. wasn’t used to like D. am not used to like

2. I_

living on my own. I've done it for quite a long time.
A. used to

B. use to

C. am used to

3. Hans has lived in England for over a year so he

D. didn’t use to

on the left now.

A. used to drive

B. is used to driving

C. is used to drive

D. used to driving

4. They've always lived in hot countries so they
A. aren't used to

B. didn’t used to

the cold weather here.
C. used to

D. get used to

5. I didn't understand the accent when I first moved here but I quickly
A. got used to

B. used to

6. She has started working nights and is

A. get used to

C. didn’t used to

D. didn’t use to

sleeping during the day.
C. used to

D. got used to

7. I have always lived in the country but now I'm beginning to

living in the city.

A. got used to
8. People

B. getting used to

it.

B. getting used to

C. get used to

D. use to

C. got used to

D. used to

think that the earth was flat.

A. use to

B. didn’t used to

9. He used to

six days a week last year now he doesn’t.

A. working

B. to working

C. work

10. It took my brother two weeks to get used to working at night. Now he
A. is used to
11. Did you

B. gets used to
B. used to

C. use to

D. A and B are right

C. get used to

D. be used to

C. A and B are right

D. A and B are wrong

C. use to go

D. used to going

C. to playing

D. to play

they use to own the company?
A. Are

B. Did

13. Didn't we

to the same school?

A. used to go
14. I didn't use
A. play
15. We

it.

go out with my sister?

A. use to
12.

D. worked

B. get used to go
with my dolls anymore.
B. playing

out much in the winter months.


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A. didn't use to go
16. Jerry used to

B. didn’t used to

B. to study

17. Sam and Mary

C. to studying

D. study

to Mexico in the summer but now they go to Cuba.

A. used to go

B. use to go

18. I used to

C. got used to go

D. got used to going

work at 9 o'clock but now I don’t any more.

A. used to start

B. used to starting

C. use to start

D. get used to start

eat meat, but now she is a vegetarian.

A. used to
20. I used to

D. A and B are wrong

English.

A. studying

19. Christine

C. A and B are right

B. gets used to

C. is used to

D. be used to

in Paris when I worked for the HB bank.

A. living

B. lived

C. to live

D. live

Choose the best answer to complete these following sentences.
1. Mr. Poole has lived in Vietnam for many years. He
A. used to

B. is used to

2. Miss White is a nurse. She

A. used to

A. used

reading books at night.
C. am used to

D. was used to

C. used to

D. isn’t used for

her homework by herself.

A. do

B. doing

7. Tom used to

C. to do

D. did

to school by bus. Now he goes by bike.

A. go

B. going

8. I’m from Vietnam. I
A. use to

C. to go

D. went

driving on the right.
B. used to

9. My uncle

C. am used to

D. get used

policeman when I was young.

A. used to

B. used to be

C. used to being

D. used have been

to me very often, but now she phones.

A. used to write

A. used to

D. used to

drinking beer.
B. isn’t used to

6. Mary is used to

C. is used to

B. used to

5. He never drinks beer. He

D. has used to

for making jewelries.

4. I always read books before bedtime. I

11. Tam didn’t

C. is used to

B. are used

A. am used for

D. B and C are correct

working at night.

3. Precious metals such as gold, silver

10. Helen

C. gets used to

B. uses to

A. used to

the hot climate here.

B. has written

C. wrote

D. writes

do morning exercise. Now he is getting fat.
B. use to

C. get used to

D. be used to


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12. A lot of people use mobile phones nowadays. Telephones
A. are used for

B. used for

13. It’s took me quite a long time to
A. be used to

communicating through long distances.

C. used to

D. are used to

wearing these glasses.

B. used to

C. get used to

D. be used for

14. There was a big tree in our garden but it has just been cut down. There
A. is used to
15. Sarah

B. has been

C. is

D. used to be

C. used to being

D. used to be

fat, but now she is thin.

A. was used to be
16. George

a big tree there.

B. used to being

the best student in class, but now Lena is the best.

A. is used to be
17. Oranges used to

B. used to be

18. They've become used to
19. Did you use to
A. play
20. Sally is used to
A. spending

D. was used to be

very little in Florida, but now they are quite expensive.

A. grow
A. work

C. used to being

B. grew

B. to grow

D. growing

C. working

D. to work

overtime.
B. worked

the piano when you were young?
B. playing

C. to play

D. played

hours in front of the computer every day.
B. to spend

C. to spend

D. spent