UNIT 3 WHAT IS SUCCESS? 

The Simple Past

The Habitual Past with Used To

Reading 1

COMPREHENSION page 73

1. F; 2. T; 3. F

THINK ABOUT IT page 73

1. Possible answer: Peter Athans meant he learned from his first few attempts, even though they were unsuccessful. The reading suggests that eventually he did learn from his failures and succeeded in climbing Everest.

2. Answers will vary.

3.1 The Simple Past—Form

EXERCISE 1 page 73

1. T; 2. T; 3. F

EXERCISE 2 pages 73–74

1. sank  2. rested  3. were  4. decided  5. grew  6. was  7. became

8. wanted  9. needed  10. asked  11. gave  12. created  13. invited

14. was  15. stayed  16. sent  17. found  18. was

3.1 The Simple Past—Use

EXERCISE 3 page 74

The following verbs should be underlined once (regular verbs):

rested, decided, wanted, needed, asked, created, invited,

stayed

The following verbs should be underlined twice (irregular verbs):

sank, grew, became, gave, sent, found

The following verbs should be circled (be): were (1), was (3)

Reading 2

COMPREHENSION page 76

1. F; 2. T; 3. T

THINK ABOUT IT page 76

Answers will vary.

3.3 The Past of Be

EXERCISE 5 page 77

1. was  2. was  3. weren’t  4. were  5. wasn’t  6. wasn’t

7. Was; was  8. was; was  9. Was  10. Were

ABOUT YOU page 77

Answers will vary.

3.4 The Simple Past of Regular Verbs

EXERCISE 6 page 78

1. lived  2. started  3. occurred  4. asked  5. attended/started

6. helped  7. wanted  8. attempted/tried

9. decided/wanted/attempted/tried  10. landed  11. died  12. failed

13. learned  14. rescued  15. discovered

3.5 The Simple Past of Irregular Verbs

EXERCISE 7 page 80

1. flew  2. thought  3. left  4. made  5. hit  6. had  7. sank

8. grew  9. became  10. found  11. led  12. brought

EXERCISE 8 page 80

1. had  2. began/went  3. saw  4. became  5. went/began

6. taught  7. said  8. wrote

Reading 3

COMPREHENSION page 82

1. T; 2. F; 3. T

THINK ABOUT IT page 82

Answers will vary.

3.6 Negatives and Questions with the

Simple Past

EXERCISE 9 page 83

1. didn’t land  2. didn’t know  3. didn’t teach  4. didn’t have

5. didn’t write  6. didn’t want  7. didn’t swim  8. didn’t go

EXERCISE 10 pages 83–84

1. Did you read  2. did  3. Did you know  4. didn’t  5. did she write

6. didn’t like  7. didn’t they think  8. did she go  9. didn’t have

10. did they reject  11. Did they offer  12. didn’t  13. Did she accept

14. did  15. Did they print  16. did  17. did they print

18. Did she speak  19. she didn’t 

Reading 4

COMPREHENSION page 86

1. F; 2. T; 3. T

THINK ABOUT IT page 86

Answers will vary.

3.7 The Habitual Past with Used To

EXERCISE 11 pages 86–87

1. used to be  2. used to have  3. use to consider  4. use to support

5. used to make  6. used to wonder  7. used to dream  8. used to ride

9. used to be  10. used to travel  11. used to suffer  12. used to give up

13. use to have

ABOUT YOU page 87

Answers will vary.

ABOUT YOU page 87

Answers will vary.

REVIEW page 89

1. was  2. Did you see  3. didn’t  4. was it  5. failed  6. did they talk

7. started  8. was  9. did they start  10. built  11. tried  12. weren’t

13. weren’t they  14. did  15. didn’t do  16. went  17. didn’t finish

18. left  19. didn’t know  20. did he leave  21. was  22. started

23. became  24. invented  25. made  26. succeeded  27. asked

28. felt  29. replied  30. didn’t fail  31. used to think

32. didn’t use to think

EDITING PRACTICE pages 90–91

1. C  2. was  3. used to  4. used to  5. was born  6. C  7. left  8. C

9. move  10. was  11. was interested/became interested  12. C

13. won  14. didn’t finish  15. took  16. entered  17. C  18. sent

19. C  20. knew  21. didn’t want  22. C  23. C  24. wasn’t  25. C

26. C  27. How did the manager of the team react  28. C  29. said

30. came  31. put  32. C  33. became  34. C  35. C  36. died