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LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT TESTS

1.Correct the mistakes if any.

1. Donald looked at him, and looked away. He was tall enough
now to look his father in the eyes; indeed, there were scarcely an
inch between them.
2. His resemblance to a father was considerable.
3. He had his father crisp dark hair, his crooked nose and lop-sided
smile.
4. His eyes were more dark and more suspicious. His father’s eyes
were a flecked gray, Donald’s a dark brown.
5. His face was soft, however, still with the indeterminacy of
boyhood.

2.Translate the following.

I.
Dear Robert,
If I take some time off work, I’ll be at the station to meet you. But I
don’t know if you can recognize me – after all I was only five years
old when you went to Canada. I have got a photo to send you so I
ought to tell you what I look like. I am tall, about 5’9’’ (5foot 9
inches), and I’ve got blue eyes. As for my hair-do, I had shoulder-
length straight dark hair until a month ago, but now it’s curly and
blond – I am not sure if I like it yet. I’m quite slim, but I’d like to lose
a few pounds… I usually wear jeans and a T-shirt, but if I come from
work, I’ll be in a skirt and blouse. I’ve got a photo of you taken when
you were twelve, but I expect you’ve changed. What do you look like
now?

II. Her face was – whose? For her eyes were her father’s, and her
mouth too; her nose and the shape of her face and even where the
lines showed how they would fall, and a mole, her mother’s. Martha
was endowed with the features which were not hers at all, merely
from stock, the storehouse of the race. These shapes of flesh had

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