1) Put the verbs in brackets into the past perfect or the past perfect continuous.

1 We (wait) for the train for three hours when it arrived.

2 Kim (never/try) Mexican food before.

3 Frank (look) for his keys for hours before he found them under the table.

4 Sue (already/read) that book before Jessica gave her it as a present.

5 I (work) in that company for five years when I got a promotion.

6 She (already/book) the tickets for the concert when I called her.

2.
Fill the gaps with:
blowing, gentle, pouring, heavy, freeze, shining.

1 Take your umbrella. It’s down outside!

2 It’s very cold; I think it will during the night.

3 The wind was so hard that I lost my hat.

4 The sun is and it’s a beautiful day.

5 The forecast says we’ll have showers all day.

6 The clothes I washed dried quickly in the breeze.

1.) As a young woman, Mercédès is kind of one-dimensional character. She's beautiful, exotic, and faithful. She has a kind heart. She's happy for Edmond when he returns and she cries for him when he's taken away. She tolerates Fernand, despite his threatening demeanor, and lets him know that she's willing to sacrifice her life if he should try to hurt Edmond. What more could you ask for in a woman? Well, maybe a little more character development. But then we meet older Mercédès, Fernand's wife. What's the deal with her? How could she have abandoned Edmond? He was only gone for like, fourteen years right? What an ungrateful…wait, what's that? FOURTEEN YEARS? OK, sure, she married a big jerk, but on the plus side she raised a pretty cool, if cocky, son. She's one of the first characters to recognize Monte Cristo as Edmond; she accepts her fate and leaves quickly after Fernand is exposed, and she's suitably chastened by the experience. So, looking at all that you'd think she might deserve a break, right? Heck, she even has to send her only son away to war. Mercédès ends up being her own harshest critic: "You did have faith," she tells Edmond, "you had strength, you trusted in God, and God sustained you. I was a coward, I denied Him, so God abandoned me; and here I am!" (112.105). This is the last we hear of Mercédès. The Count moves on, finds love with Haydée, and rides off into the sunset. Meanwhile, Mercédès left to live in the old Dantès apartment in Marseille, left to cry herself to sleep, just as she was left to cry when Edmond was taken away to prison. Unwilling to "hope" and "wait" – the two things the Count tells Valentine and Maximillian they must do – she suffers as a result. But, really, hasn't she suffered enough? Is this punishment really called for?

I.GRAMMAR: 
Example: She a student. She’s a teacher.
 B isn’t 
1 We to France last summer.
 C went
2 I always toast for breakfast.
 B have 
3 your brother play the guitar?
A Does 
4 My mum doesn’t like to work.
 B driving 
5 They TV at the moment.
A ’re watching 
6 I to Rome.
 B ’ve never been 
7 What tomorrow afternoon?
 B are you going to do 
8 We to Rome and then we drove to Florence.
A flew 
9 She to school today because she’s ill.
A doesn’t go 
10 I at the moment because I’m on holiday.
A ’m not studying 
11 Have you ever Japanese food?
 B eaten 
12 They pizza. They had pasta.
A didn’t have 
13 Who your favourite actors?
 B are
14 How often to the cinema?
B do you go 
15 They early on Sundays.
 C don’t get up
16 This is interesting book. Have you read it?
 B an 
17 I often go shopping the weekend.
 C at
18 The children played in the garden.
 C happily
19 These shoes aren’t . Look! They’re too small.
C mine
20 there any biscuits?
A Are 
21 She hardly travels abroad.
 B ever 
22 Paul left work an hour .
 C ago
23 How chocolate do you eat?
 B much 
24 This is film I’ve ever seen.
A the best 
25 I’m younger my sister.
B than