We won’t start the work until all the preparations __________.

She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.

—Have you finished reading Jane Eyre?
—No，I ________my homework all day yesterday.

I'm tired out.I ________ all afternoon and I don't seem to have finished anything.

Mother wanted to be a good provider, a role she ________ since her marriage to
Father.

They could have attended the awarding ceremony，but their flight      due to the bad weather．

—My dear, you ______ things about. Look, what a mess in the room!
—Sorry, Mom.

Over the past decades, the population in this country      because of the rising birth rate, immigration and the declining death rate.

Investment by Chinese companies in the US _____ rapidly in recent years.

Medicine and food ________ to the flood areas soon.