B1 Use of English Quiz

We _____ tomorrow morning. The train _____ at 7:45 a.m.

• will leave / leaves

• leave / is leaving

• are leaving / leaves

• leave / leaves

Answer explanation

➪ In the first gap, we use the present continuous because this tense is used to talk or ask about future actions that are already planned or decided.

➪ In he second gap, we use the present simple because this tense is used to talk about future events that are scheduled or timetabled.

➪ To review present simple and present continuous, go to » Grammar points » B1 » Present simple or present continuous

I _____ her since the day I met her.

• 've loved

• 'm loving

• love

• loving

Answer explanation

➪ We can use the present perfect with for, since and how long to ask or talk about situations that started in the past and have not finished.

➪ To review the present perfect, go to » Grammar points » B1 » Past simple or present perfect?

You should drive _____ if you don't want to have an accident.

• slower

• more slowly

• more slower

• slowlier

Answer explanation

➪ We use more and most to make the comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adverbs ending in -ly (quickly ⇒ more quickly) .

➪ We use -ier and -iest to make the comparative and superlative forms of two-syllable adjectives ending in -y (dirty ⇒ dirtier). 

➪ Slow is an adjective (the comparative form is slower), and slowly is an adverb (the comparative form is more slowly). ➪ To review comparative adjectives and adverbs, go to » Grammar points » B1 » Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs

A: "Do you like _____ books?" B: "Yes. I'm always at _____ library."

• the / a

• a / the

• - / a

• - / the

Answer explanation

➪ We don't use the article to describe something in general, not a specific things. In the first gap, they are talking about books in general.

➪ We use the with places in a town where we commonly go (the park, the cinema, the doctor, the library, etc.)

➪ To review the article, go to » Grammar points » B1 » A(n), the, no article

I'd like to _____ help you, but I don't have money right now.

• can

• be able to

• can to

• could

Answer explanation

➪ The verb can only has present and past forms: can–could. For all other verb forms (infinitive, gerund, present perfect, etc.) we should use be able to.

➪ To review modal verbs of ability and possibility, go to » Grammar points » B1 » Can, could, be able to – ability and possibility

What _____ to do when we finish?

• have we

• must we

• should we

• do we have

Answer explanation

➪ Have to is NOT a modal verb. We need do/does/did to make negatives and questions in present and past.

➪ After must or should we need an infinitive without to.

➪ To review modal verbs of obligation, go to » Grammar points » B1 » have to, must, should – obligation, prohibition, necessity, advice

He crashed his car into a tree because he _____ attention to the road.

• didn't pay

• hadn't paid

• wasn't paying

• not paid

Answer explanation

➪ We use the past continuous for actions in progress in the past or longer actions interrupted by shorter actions in past simple.

➪ In this sentence, when he crashed the car, the action of not paying attention was in progress.

➪ To review past tenses, go to Grammar points » B1 » Past simple, past continuous, past perfect

I _____ beans when I was a child, but now I love them.

• didn't use to like

• usedn't to like

• didn;t use to liking

• was not used to like

Answer explanation

➪ We can use used to + infinitive to talk about situations or states (stative verbs) which were true in the past, but they are no longer true.

➪ The negative form of used to + infinitive is didn’t use to + infinitive, and we make questions with did you use to + infinitive.

➪ To review this grammar topic, go to » Grammar points » B1 » usually, used to, be used to, get used to

Hundreds of people _____ after a fire broke out in an industrial unit.

• have been evacuating

• were evacuate

• have evacuated

• have been evacuated

Answer explanation

➪ The verb in this sentence needs to be passive because the subject (hundreds of people), is the ‘receiver’ and not the ‘doer’ of the action (evacuate).

➪ The only passive form that we have is the present perfect passive of the verb evacuate, which is formed with the perfect of be + the past participle of the main verb: have been + evacuated.

➪ To review passive forms, go to Grammar points » B1 » Passive verb forms

She _____ if we hadn't been there to take her to the hospital.

• wouldn't survive

• wouldn't have survived

• hadn't survived

• didn't survive

Answer explanation

➪ This is a third conditional sentence.➪ In a third conditional sentence, we use if + past perfect to talk about an imaginary or hypothetical situation in the past. And we use would have, could have or might have + past participle in the main clause to talk about the result or consequence of that imaginary situation.➪ To review the third conditional, go to » Grammar points » B1 » Third conditional – past unreal situations