Two English Questions.

Question 1
The answer should be b.

If you want to talk about repeated states in the past, you must use used to:





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He used to be a baker.


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I used to have a black cat. No verb-to-be is needed. B is the only correct answer.
Question 2
In to-infinitive and bare infinitive, help is a tricky word. It can be both.
In (a) and (b). the difference is one of form only. There is no difference in meaning.
Let's see what BBC English says:
to-infinitive or bare infinitive
Help is a verb that can be used with or without to and with or without an object before the infinitive. When we use it without an infinitive it sometimes sounds more informal. Compare the following:

Could you help me to look for my car keys? I can't find them anywhere.


Could you help me look for my car keys? I can't find them anywhere.


Would you like to help to cook dinner tonight? It's late and I'm feeling tired.


Would you like to help cook dinner tonight? It's late and I'm feeling tired.
So both a and b are grammatically correct while (b) sounds more informal.

2007-03-15 10:29:29 補充：
BBC English is not a local English Tutor. It is really from BBC UK.

Copy..

1. a
2. b

1.In the army 是指過去，所以要用past tense. I was used to swimming in the morning。意思是當兵的時候，我習慣在早上游泳。而used to 是曾經的意思，故此不適合用於此句。

2.兩句的意思是一樣的，不過，help her finish 是正確的用法。
help is a special word. Help的用法要直接跟原形動詞。例如 keep hong kong clean.
help me get the glass.

There are many special words : make ,seem ,keep ,help......

1) choose b, this is simple past tense to describe what was your habit during the army time (past), a and c are passive tense, not suitable here.

2) a is correct, b has grammar problem! To simplify this, you can have 2 verbs existing together in 1 sentance without any preprosition to link them. But, sometime you may see this:

I keep trying to do homework.
"trying" is not a verb in this case, "keep" and "do" are the only 2 verbs, so there's a preprosition "to" in between.

Althought this is not very clear, but i hope that the answers could help! =)