—Did you enjoy meeting your old schoolmates at the party last week?—Yes, I did. We ________ each other since we graduated from college.

A poet and artist _____ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow afternoon. 

—Why didn’t you go out to meet the new forging teacher?—I would have, but I         the spelling mistakes in my homework.

I _______ there little more than a week when I set to work with the scientist.

----Did you see the manager in the office? ----Yes. He _______ by a journalist from China Daily.