Now 70 years old, the British physicist, Pendry can’t remember a time when he was not asking a question as a kid, joking that he ________ his parents to death.

—What happened to the young trees we planted last week?—The trees _      well, but I_        them．  

If she     that Mary would come to see her, she would never have gone to the party.

——Tom is never late for work. Why is he absent today?—— Something _____to him.

I would have met him ______ to the cinema last night.