请根据句意从方框中选择合适的动词，并用其适当时态填空，使句子通顺。

【小题1】Do you know that I __________ special attention to your misses in spelling these days?
【小题2】I hear you once studied in Sunshine Middle School. Who ______ you English there?
【小题3】He __________ a novel when I came to his house.
【小题4】—What’s wrong with my computer？
—Let me see! Oh, it _________ down. You’d better ask someone to mend it.
【小题5】You can never imagine how much difficulty they had _______ the ship in the storm．