The Great Gatsby / Великий Гэтсби. Книга для чтения на английском языке

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6. You have to keep … them all the time.

7. “They’re going West to live for a while until it blows … .”

8. “I almost married a little kike who’d been … me for years.”

9. He had on a dress suit and leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes … him.

10. Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring … the morning Tribune.

5. Find in the text the sentences in which the following word combinations are used. Make up your own sentences using them.

To fatten the practice, to sink down, to force somebody, a persistent stare, to slap somebody, a thickish figure, to block out, an immediate vitality, to wet somebody’s lips, a coarse voice, to exchange a frown, discreetly, shrill and languid, the influence of something, a mincing shout, to view somebody intently, to turn somebody’s attention to something, elaborateness, an artificial laughter, passionate voices.

6. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words and word combinations.

Пепел, бесконечно, несуществующий, разводной мост, любовница, любовная связь, знакомые, настаивать, жаловаться, широкие бедра, торопливо, забраться, сомнительная порода, уважительный, впечатляющее высокомерие, отклонить, отчаяние, развод, отвести глаза, завивка, ошейник, скулить, спотыкаться.

7. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Perfect and explain why it is used.

1. She … (change) her dress to a brown figured muslin.

2. When I came back they … (disappear).

3. She … (pluck) her eyebrows and then drew them again.

4. He … just … (shave), for there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone.

5. She told me with pride that her husband … (photograph) her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.

6. Mrs. Wilson … (change) her costume some time before.

7. The intense vitality that … (be) so remarkable in the garage turned into impressive arrogance.

8. It came from Myrtle, who … (overhear) the question, and it was violent and rude.

9. I tried to show by my expression that I … (play) no part in her past.

10. When he … (go) halfway he turned around.

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