1. We saw a lot of interesting things when we were on a tramp/a tour. 2. It's too late to start on a tramp/hike. 3. Will you go with them on an excursion? 4. I am busy now, I have a lot to do/five written exercises to do. 5. It was growing dark and they still had some six miles to go. 6.1 shan't be free till July. I have work to do. 7. Both brothers are tall and as thin as rails.
19. In the father's presence the boys are as meek as lambs.
20. The twins are as like as two peas. 10. With her close- cropped hair she looked like a boy. 11. She is under twenty but she looks like a twenty-five year-old woman. 12. The water in the lake was so warm that it was like a bath. 13. She was a small, pretty woman with a complexion that was like a rose petal. 14. The cloud now spreading across the sky, was like asheet of fire. 15.1 had a good look at the picture yesterday and I think it is as good as the painter's other works. 16.1 don't know the rules but I think it's like being on a tramp. 17. This is the house where the writer lived, now it's a museum and people go there on excursions. 18. I'm not sure of the meaning of the term, perhaps it's something like "a handover".
Exercise 2, p. 250
1. I had a kind of suspicion that he was cheating. 2. The vines formed a kind of roof. 3.1 didn't know the kind of game they were playing. 4. It was a deserted hut that could give them a kind of shelter. 5. She had a kind of hat on her head. 6. The whole affair strikes me as queer. 7. It struck me as odd that I found nobody at home. 8. The excuse he gave struck me as ridiculous. 9- He strikes me as well-read in literature. 10. He turned the car towards a large house that struck him as typically Swiss.
Exercise 4, p. 250
1. It happened when we were on a tour of the Caucasus. 2. As soon as we came to/arrived in London we went/started on an excursion. 3- After the wedding Michael and Fleur went on a honeymoon trip. 4. The renovation/redecoration of the country cottage is almost over, there is only the floor to paint. 5.1 had still ten pages to read when the light went out. 6. The geologist still had three days to stay in the camp when suddenly a storm broke out. 7. After his illness John has become thin as a rail though he says that he already feels well. 8.1 wonder why in public/before strangers the children are meek as lambs and at home they do as they please/at home they are so naughty. 9. The twins were as like as two peas and no one except/but their mother could tell them apart/could distinguish them. 10. He is a highly educated man. Talking to him is like reading an encyclopaedia. 11. The girl lost her mother at an early age and her elder sister was like a mother to her. 12. This month in the mountains was like a wonderful dream. 13. There is a sort of terrace in their country cottage, but it is not finished yet. 14.1 have no idea what this dish is. Maybe it's a sort of ragout? 1 5. It's the kind of flower which can be found/to be found only high in the mountains. 16. When we came up to/approached the house it struck us as queer that there was no light in the windows. 17. He struck me as a very cautious and indecisive/irresolute person. 18. He strikes me as a real connoisseur of painting.
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