Lesson 31  Success story

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own. In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!

昨天下午弗兰克.霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作14个小时。他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。20多岁的时候，弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件。那时他有两个帮手。几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路，微笑了。他正笑着的时候门开了，他的妻子走了进来。她叫他去修理孙子的自行车。

Grammar

1. 过去进行时与一般过去时的用法。

2. used to do的用法。

补充：used to do sth. 表示过去常常做某事，暗示现在不做了；be used to doing sth. 表示习惯做某事； be used to do sth. 表示被用来做某事。

Exercises.

1. When I was young, I __________ in the river near my village.

A. was used to swim    B. used to swimming

C. used to swim          D. am used to swimming

2. The Browns __________ a big dinner together on every important festival. .

A.  used to having         B. were used to have

C. are used to having     D. are used to have

1 解析：本题考查used to do的用法，表示过去常常，根据题意：“我年轻时，经常在家附近的河里游泳”，所以答案为C。

2 解析： 本题考查be used to doing的用法，表示习惯做某事。根据题意：“Brown一家人习惯每个重大节日聚餐”，所以答案为C。