All the preparations for the task _____, and we’re ready to start．

I first met Mr Smith in America. He ________ at Stanford University then.

Instead of flocking into the cities, the peasants __________ villages and townships of a new type in the past few years.

I’m not familiar with this place. It’s the first time I _____ here, you know.

I arrived late; I ________ the road to be so icy.