22. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. … nine o’clock, one morning late … July, Gatsby’s gorgeous car lurched … the rocky drive … my door and gave … a burst of melody … its three-noted horn. 2. It was the first time he had called … me, though I had gone … two … his parties, mounted … his hydroplane, and … his urgent invitation, made frequent use … his beach. 3. I had talked with him perhaps half … a dozen times … the past month and found, … my disappointment, that he had little to say. 4. So he was aware … the bizarre accusations that flavoured conversations … the hall. 5. I was brought … … America but educated … Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there … many years. 6. … my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look. 7. I happened to find … that you’re taking Miss Baker … tea. 8. … for me, I am fifty years old, and I won’t impose myself … you any longer. 9. I insisted … paying … the check. As the waiter brought my change I caught sight … Tom Buchanan … the crowded room. 10. The officer looked … Daisy while she was speaking, … a way that every young girl wants to be looked … sometime, and because it seemed romantic … me I have remembered the incident ever since.

23. Give synonyms and antonyms (where possible) to the following adjectives and verbs used in this chapter:

    1. Urgent, monstrous, sporadic, divine, fantastic, expressive, succulent, ferocious, unfathomable, elaborate.

    2. Inquire, convince, restrain, elicit, hesitate, luxuriate, brood, flip, impose, engross, flatter, circulate, abandon.

24. Try to imagine what could have happened if:

    1. Daisy had married Gatsby.

    2. After lunch in New York Nick and Gatsby had met Tom and Daisy.

    3. Mr. Wolfshiem had told Nick a little bit more about Gatsby.

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 5)

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

peninsular stalk disheveled

groan defunct astounding

expanse tilt fold

blaze reproach corrugated

soggy abound defiantly

scrutinize meditatively billow

bleared vestige nebulous

harrowed humiliation bewilderment

ripple short cut ghostly

26. Answer the following questions:

    1. What did Nick see when he got back home to East Egg?

    2. Why did Nick decline Gatsby’s offer about some “little business on a side”?

    3. Describe the preparations undertaken for meeting Daisy at Nick’s place?

    4. Describe the state in which Gatsby was expecting Daisy’s arrival?

    5. How did the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy take place?

    6. How did Gatsby behave during the meeting? Why did he at some point think that it was “a terrible mistake”?

    7. What change could Nick observe in Gatsby when he returned into the room?

    8. Describe the “excursion” through Gatsby’s house?

    9. The author says about Gatsby: “He had passed through two states and was entering upon a third”. Can you describe those three states?

    10. Why, do you think, Daisy was crying at the sight of Gatsby’s beautiful shirts?

    11. What is the significance of the green light that Gatsby used to observe? Do you agree with Nick’s explanation?

    12. How did Gatsby answer the phone? Is there a certain mystery about those numerous telephone calls that he was constantly getting?

    13. Explain the following phrases:

Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store in his heart.

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

огни то меркли, то снова вспыхивали; с плохо скрытым нетерпением; причинять беспокойство; мямлить в поисках подходящего начала; к моему невероятному удивлению; бледный как смерть; спасительная суета; при первом удобном случае; от первоначальной скованности не осталось и следа; не очень вежливый ответ; восхищалась пенным благоуханьем боярышника; нерассуждающая радость; утратил свое колоссальное значение.