Get Used To

Name: Result: __/17 Date: __/__/20__

Could he ever get used to

1. ____________________________ such a life? (he/could/ever/?)

cannot get used to

2. I have been accustomed to live in a family, and I _____________________
this life. (not/can)

could get used to

3. She never ____________________ this life either! (could)

4. You ___________________ the idea, though, that every Project demands

its toll of deaths. (must)

5. He ______________________ the idea, but he wasn't happy over it.

(past continuous)

6. He ________________________ the thought that she had really left him,

and as though still searching for some message, some reason, some reading
of all the mystery of his married life, he began opening every recess and
drawer. (not/could)

7. Though anyone __________________ all kinds of horrid sights, in a

measure, I could tell some things that I don't think one would care to hear.
(can)

8. She was sort of skeary-like when she first came into the country; but she
_________________ it. (present perfect)

9. Began at the bottom-as if they were in training for the presidency, you
know-the mother _____________________ it as much as the father.
(not/present perfect)

10. I wish my girl boarded in a livery stable, then she

____________________ the smell. (would)

11. I ____________________ the idea at all. (not/can)

12. I can't break you in at such a big figger, and then hev you bolt the track
just as I __________________ you. (present perfect)

13. Even his wife __________________ the firing-line, now that neither shot
nor shell could harm her boy. (past perfect)
14. But as I go on in life, day by day, I become more of a bewildered child; I
_____________________ this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to
hearing; the commonest things are a burthen. (not/can)

15. I suppose you have to be self-centred to succeed; and then somehow,

they ____________________ the little things. (not/can)

16. Poor little orphans, they ________________________ their changed

conditions! (not/could)

17. He told himself he ____________________ it presently. (would)

18. Finally I fell asleep, comforting myself that I ____________________ it.

(might)

19. But perhaps I ____________________ it. (shall)

20. She just ________________________ the fact that she was engaged to
such a prince among men! (not/could)