D Underline the correct option. 1 She was surprised to see him at work so early. She had told/had been telling him not to arrive before 9.00.

2 I couldn't believe it when I saw the exam question. It was just what I had been hoping/had hoped for.

3 He'd been coming/had come to the station to pick her up.

4 He wanted to see the dentist, but she had been going/ had gone on holiday.

5 It was great to hear from her. I had been waiting/had waited for her call.

6 She fell over and hit her head. She didn't know how she had been doing/had done it.

7 The children were very dirty. They had been playing/ had played in the woods.

8 I hadn't been hearing/hadn't heard of Louis de Bernières before I read Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

1) Make sure that you have been practicing to prepare for the concert. The more you practice the more the music and the notes become easier to play. 2) Practice with a metronome whenever possible, and set it to the tempo you will be performing at. You want to be at the right speed and not buzzing ahead or dropping behind, you and others would get confused! 3) Attend rehearsals. Go to every single rehearsal, or as many as you can to help your group get used to playing with each other. 4) Make sure you have your wardrobe ready before the day of the concert. What you're wearing to perform is very important. You might have to wear something specific, such as a tuxedo. Get all this stuff before the day of the concert. 5) Have your instrument ready the day of the concert. Try not to do anything last minute, like changing the strings the day of the concert. 6) Be on time to the concert so as to tune up your instruments with the group. Remember you are the ones in the concert, and not attending it. 7)Perform and enjoy it even if it is your first time. Have fun and do not think about how many people are watching you. Just make believe you are only practicing with the band. The audience usually claps no matter what.

States-General in France — the highest class-a Executive institution in 1302-1789 years. The emergence of the States General was associated with the growth of cities, the aggravation of social contradictions and class struggle, which caused the need to strengthen the feudal state. Predecessors of the States-General were enlarged sessions of the Royal Council (with the assistance of city top), and the provincial Assembly of estates (marking the beginning of the provincial States). The first States-General were convened in 1302, during the conflict with Philip IV Pope Boniface VIII. The States General was a deliberative body, convened on the initiative of Royal power in the critical moments to assist the government. Their main function was the quota of taxes. Each class — first, second, third estate met in General separately from other States and had one vote (regardless of the number of representatives). The third estate was represented by the tip of the townspeople. The value of the States General increased during the hundred years ' war 1337-1453, when the Royal power was particularly in need of money. In the period of popular uprisings of the fourteenth century (the Paris uprising of 1357-1358, 1358 Jacquerie) States-General claimed for active participation in the governance of the country (such requirements are expressed the States General of 1357, in the "Great March Ordinance"). However, the lack of unity between the cities and their implacable hostility to nobility made fruitless attempts of the French General States to achieve rights that has managed to conquer the English Parliament. In the end of XIV century the States General were convened less and often replaced by meetings of notables. From the end of XV century the Institute of the States General went into decline in the beginning of the development of absolutism within 1484-1560, they generally have not been convened (known to revive their activities was observed in the period of Religious wars — General States were convened in 1560, 1576, 1588, and 1593 years). From 1614 until 1789, the General States again was never going to. Only on 5 may 1789 in conditions of acute political crisis on the eve of the French revolution, the king convened the States General. On 17 June 1789 the deputies of the third estate declared itself the National Assembly July 9, the National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly, which became the highest representative and legislative organ of revolutionary France. In the XX century the name of the States General took some Executive meeting dealing with political issues and expressing public opinion (for example, the Assembly of the States General for disarmament, may 1963).