P: Yes, please tell the professor that I’d like to ask for sick leave for tomorrow.
S: Sorry to hear that. May I ask _____53_____ with you?

By the time I got home, my grandmother________the dinner and was watching TV.

• A、prepares  
  

• B、prepared 
  

• C、has prepared 
  

• D、had prepared

How does Peter get second-hand cartoon books now?

• A、He buys them from bookstores.

• B、He goes around collecting them.

• C、He borrows them from his friends.

• D、He waits for people to sell them to him.