28. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. Only wind … the trees, which blew the wires and made the light go … and … again as if the house had winked … the darkness. 2. I’m going to call … Daisy tomorrow and invite her … here … tea. 3. It wouldn’t take … much of your time and you might pick … a nice but of money. 4. I realize that … different circumstances that conversation might have been one … the crises of my life. 5. The day agreed … was pouring … rain. 6. Finally, he got … and informed … me, … an uncertain voice, that he was going … home. 7. “Are you … love … me,” she said low … my ear, “or why did I have to come alone?” 8. I think we all believed … a moment that it had smashed … pieces … the floor. 9. There was nothing to look … from … the tree … Gatsby’s enormous house, so I stared … it, like Kant … his church steeple, … half an hour. 10. I think he hardly knew what he was saying, … when I asked him what business he was … he answered: “That’s my affair,” … he realized that it wasn’t an appropriate reply. 11. Daisy’s face was smeared … tears, and when I came … she jumped … and began wiping … it … her handkerchief … a mirror. 12. “If it wasn’t … the mist we could see your home … the bay,” said Gatsby. 13. He went … … the room calling “Ewing!” and returned … a few minutes accompanied … an embarrassed, slightly worn young man, … shell-rimmed glasses and scanty blond hair. 14. They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced … and held … her hand, Gatsby didn’t know me now … all.

29. Give synonyms and antonyms (where possible) to the following words used in this chapter:

    1. Glint, rout, reluctance, receptacle, pantry, ripple, alarm, reproach, humiliation, intensity, vitality.

    2. Confidential, responsive, occasional, vacant, invisible, ecstatic, defunct, distraught, stiff, abortive, irregular, confounding.

    3. Absently, evidently, gaudily, blankly, miserably, rigidly, hilariously.

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

    1. From “When I came…” to “…across his lawn”.

    2. From “The evening had made me…” to “…lemons and flowers”.

    3. From “The rain cooled about half-past three…” to “…I went out into the yard”.

    4. From “Under the dripping bare lilac-trees…” to “…to go far away and spend and hour”.

    5. From “The automatic quality of Gatsby’s answer…” to “…a terrible, terrible mistake”.

    6. From “I walked out the back way…” to “…obstinate about being peasantry”.

    7. From “Instead of taking the short cut…” to “…into ghostly laughter”.

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 6)

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

notoriety to urge object

pipe-line to be perturbed to blot out

insidious twilight linger

ineffable oblivion to venture

on the verge genially to lurk

contingency affirm elusive

ingratiate pebble

32. Answer the following questions:

    1. Why did a reporter visit Gatsby one day?

    2. How did the character of Jay Gatsby appear?

    3. What were Gatsby’s days occupied by those days long time ago?

    4. Who was Dan Cody?

    5. How did Gatsby meet Tom again?

    6. Why did Tom think he was “old-fashioned”? Was it really so?

    7. Why, do you think, Gatsby was so eager to accept Mrs. Sloane’s invitation? What is the significance of the three visitors not waiting for Gatsby?

    8. In what situation is the following phrase used: “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment”? Which of the characters is using it?

    9. Was Gatsby behaving in a different way during the party which was attended by Tom and Daisy?

    10. Was Daisy having a good time at the party? What was her impression of West Egg?

    11. What kind of conversation did Tom and Daisy have at the end of the party?

    12. Why was Gatsby so sure that Daisy hadn’t enjoyed the party?

    13. In what season of the year had Gatsby met Daisy? How did he describe his love story to Nick? What kind of feeling did Nick have while listening to that story?

    14. Why was Gatsby so attached to his past? Do you think Nick was right saying to Gatsby: “You can’t repeat the past”.

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

с похвальной предприимчивостью; выстрел наудачу; бросить якорь; служили отдушиной; юридические уловки; перевел дух; с грубоватой вежливостью; многоголосная суета; взгляд блуждал по толпе; отравляло воздух; первобытная сила; жизнь пошла вкривь и вкось.