16. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. There was a machine … the kitchen which could extract … the juice of two hundred oranges … half … an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times … a butler’s thumb. 2. Laughter is easier minute … minute, spilled … prodigality, tipped out … a cheerful word. 3. Once there they were introduced … somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted … themselves according … the rules … behaviour associated … an amusement park. 4. Dressed … … white flannels I went over … his lawn a little after seven, and wandered … rather ill … ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know – though here and there was a face I had noticed … the commuting train. 5. They were … least agonizingly aware … the easy money … the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs … a few words … the right key. 6. Welcome or not, I found it necessary to attach myself … somebody before I should begin to address cordial remarks … the passers-by. 7. One of the men nodded … confirmation. 8. As our credulity switched back … her she leaned forward … enthusiasm…9. We were sitting … a table … a man … about my age and a rowdy little girl, who gave way … the slightest provocation … uncontrollable laughter. 10. He excused himself … a small bow that included each … us … turn. 11. She got … slowly, raising her eyebrows … me … astonishment, and followed … the butler … the house. 12. The wives were sympathizing … each other … slightly raised voices. 13. … the contrary, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer, and, until much later, they absorbed … me infinitely less than my personal affairs.

17. Give synonyms to the following adverbs and adjectives used in this chapter:

    1. Gravely, tortuously, evidently, precisely, hastily, entirely, gradually, infinitely, deliberately.

    2. Rowdy, rare, eternal, corpulent, wan, jovial, sinister, crisp, incessant, mellow, jaunty.

18. Reproduce (in a reported speech) any dialogue from this chapter.

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 4)

19. Find the following expressions in the text and describe the situations in which they were used:

tribute overpopulated circulate

strangle sombre armistice

sporadic obscurely squeeze

proprietor brood unfathomable

flavour succulent irregularity

pull one’s leg ivory moth

threadbare denizen abandon

infantry stagger jauntily

loaf curb

20. Answer the following questions:

    1. Who could Nick encounter at Gatsby’s parties?

    2. Why was Nick slightly disappointed in Gatsby?

    3. What story did Gatsby tell Nick in the car? Did it seem plausible to Nick?

    4. Whom did Nick meet for lunch?

    5. What could be Mr. Wolfshiem’s occupation?

    6. What was the staggering information that Nick heard from Gatsby about Wolfshiem?

    7. How long was Jordan acquainted with Daisy? What was Daisy’s youth like?

    8. How did Daisy get married to Tom? Was it a happy marriage?

    9. What was Tom and Daisy’s life like in Chicago?

    10. What was Gatsby’s favour that Jordan asked Nick for? What was Nick’s reaction to it?

    11. Why did Gatsby insist on Jordan’s telling the whole story to Nick?

    12. Comment on the meaning of the following sentences:

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American – that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired”.

21. Find the following expressions in the text and use them in the examples of your own:

следуя его настойчивым приглашениям; впечатление ... постепенно стерлось; уклончивые банальности; потеряло силу все, что он говорил; залпом проглотил кофе; хладнокровно добавил; поглощены друг другом; пьяна как сапожник; не моргнув глазом; бесцельное великолепие; никаких недозволенных встреч; бестелесный образ.