41. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. Wondering if he were sick I went … to find … – an unfamiliar butler … a villainous face squinted … me suspiciously … the door. 2. Next day Gatsby called me … the phone. 3. As my train emerged … the tunnel … sunlight, only the hot whistles … the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush … noon. 4. I picked it …with a weary bend and handed it back … her, holding it … arm’s length and … the extreme tip … the corners to indicate that I had no designs … it – but every one near …, including the woman, suspected my just the same. 5. Daisy and Jordan lay … an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing … their own white dresses … the singing breeze … the fans. 6. Gatsby stood … the center … the crimson carpet and gazed … … fascinated eyes. 7. I’m …no obligation … you at all… and as for your bothering me … it … lunch time, I won’t stand that … all! 8. Gatsby and I … turn leaned … and took the small reluctant hand. 9. Daisy sat back … the couch. The nurse took a step … and held … her hand. 10. The suggestion was distasteful … Gatsby. 11. “Come …, Daisy,” said Tom, pressing … his hand … Gatsby’s car. 12. We were all irritable now … the fading ale, and aware … it we drove … a while … silence. 13. … an effort Wilson left the shade and support … the doorway and, breathing hard, unscrewed the cap … the tank. … the sunlight his face was green. 14. “What do you want money …, all … a sudden?” 15. Then as Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s faded eyes came … sight … the road, I remembered Gatsby’s caution … gasoline.

42. Give synonyms to the following words used in this chapter:

    1. Sulkily, cynically, crossly.

    2. Villainous, harrowing, distasteful, moderate.

    3. Occasion, affront, rumour, temper, contingency, glare, vigil.

    4. Bribe, perspire, croon, hover, overtake, snort, interrupt, owe.

43. Translate two of the following passages into Russian (in writing) and comment on the transformations you have chosen:

1. From “My Finn informed me…” to “…that Gatsby had outlined in the garden”.

2. From “The next day was broiling…” to “…the common store of life”.

3. From “The room, shadowed well with awning, …” to “…and hurried into the room”.

4. From “They went upstairs to get ready…” to “…, the golden girl”.

5. From “The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me…” to “…from less than twenty feet away”.

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 7/2)

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

inviolate row magnanimous

to dart gibberish menacing

tumultuous to be tempted expostulation

to crab vicariously incoherent

portentous sagely truculent

to append perceptible to whimper

intermittent rancour despicable

incredulous lurch vigil

45. Answer the following questions:

1. How did Gatsby’s confrontation with Tom begin? Do you think Gatsby chose the right strategy?

2. Why was Daisy suddenly so eager to go back home? Was she interested in Gatsby’s telling the truth to Tom?

3. What do you think is the author trying to say by the sentences: “But it was done now. It was too late”.

4. Why did Daisy think that Gatsby wanted “too much”? Do you agree with her?

5. What did Tom mean by saying that he “made a little investigation”? What did he find out?

6. How did Tom and Daisy’s behaviour change at the end of their conversation in the hotel? Why was Daisy terrified by the conversation between Gatsby and Tom?

7. How did Nick dwell on the meaning of his age?

8. What caused Myrtle’s death? How did Tom and Wilson react to Myrtle’s death? What does their reaction tell about them?

9. Why was Nick so impatient to go back home after they had got back from New York?

10. Why was Gatsby waiting by the Buchanans’ house?

11. At the end of the chapter Nick says about Gatsby: “I disliked him so much by this time that I didn’t find it necessary to tell him he was wrong”. In what reference were these words used? Why did Nick “dislike” his friend so much?

12. What did Nick see when he looked through the window of the Buchanans’ house?

13. Does Nick ever compare Jordan to Daisy? Find proofs in the text.

14. How does Fitzgerald describe the hot summer day? How do those descriptions dovetail with the development of the events in this chapter?

15. Did you change your personal attitude to any of the characters?

16. Sum up the events described in chapter 7.

17. Who is a bootlegger? Try to find other realias describing America of the 20s.

46. Comment on the meaning of the following expressions and paraphrase them:

1. There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

2. They were out in the open at last and Gatsby was content.

3. Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

4. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

5. The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

6. They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts, even from our pity.

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

придумать возражение; приняли трудно объяснимое решение; говорить людям дерзости; разъяснить одну важную подробность; мы разделяем его недоверие; вновь обрел свою непоколебимую веру; умей владеть собой; требовали, один настойчивее другого; кончено, раз и навсегда; рухнувшая мечта; с великодушным презрением; сделалось не по себе; рывком поднял голову; неясное побуждение; согласно кивала.