阅读下面短文,用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。(必要时可加助动词或情态动词) To welcome the Olympics in 2008 in Beijing, many old people begin to learn English now. Grandma Han Ye is 75 years old. She 1 (read)English sentences aloud every day. Now she 2 (learn)about 30 phrases. Han is too old to go to school. Her teachers are some Junior 2 students from No. 1 Middle School in Rizhao. They began helping the old people study English, one-to-one, in May. The old people 3 (hope)to use EnglisOne and a half days what I need. A.was B.were C.is D.are