The answer is are because its a verb that is stating something.
The correct answer should be locate basic information.
When you are doing the preliminary research, you are just reading through a bunch of sources and information that you may or may not use while writing. You still aren't deciding which exact sources you are actually going to use, but rather just trying to find them and later on make that decision during another stage of writing.
In "the fun they had . " tommy finds a book. The book's pages are yellow and crinkly because it was an old book which excited nearly a 100 years ago when the books were printed in spite of being saved and shown in the television screen that tommy and Margie had.
<span>D: Modern art, hope this helps</span>
