ASSIGNMENT 8

CHAPTER VII (pp.131 - 152)

a. Learn the pronunciation of the following words:

precipitately, mint julep, magnanimous, portentous, tumultuous, aluminum, vicariously, rancour, incoherent, chord, libertine, undespairingly, expostulation, threshold, truculent.

b. Study the vocabulary and render the situations from the text:

to dart 132; to crab about smth 133; to make personal remarks 133, to cause a row 136; to count smb out 136,

to go off on a spree 138; to treat smb to a story 138, to have smb up 140, to scare smb. into doing smth 140, to slow down 144, to resolve into smth 145, to dispose of smth 149.

c. Give English equivalents to the following words:

Догонять/обгонять 131, появляться в поле зрения 132, принимать более реальную форму 132, роскошный 132, в двух шагах от церкви 134, прекращение военных действий 135, говорить в открытую 136, забить себе голову пустяками 138, интрижка 138, ее взгляд упал на 138, все время/всегда 138, из-под прилавка/нелегально 140, уходить в себя 141, нечто незначительное 141, суета 142, уставший человек 143, остекленевший взгляд 146.

d. Comment on the following sentences:

1. “Human sympathy has its limits …” p. 142

2. “He was his wife’s man and not his own” p. 143

3. “There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together” p. 152

e. Speak on the following:

1. Why was Tom feeling the hot whips of panic driving to town?

2. What did Daisy suggest doing in New York?

3. Who started the row? What was the pretext?

4. What’s the idea of mentioning the wedding taking place in the room below?

5. Was Gatsby an Oxford man?

6. Tom was sure Daisy loved him, wasn’t he? Why?

7. Why did Daisy call Tom’s love declaration revolting?

8. Did Daisy hesitate telling Tom she never loved him?

9. What did Tom learn about Gatsby through the investigation he had made?

10. Which of the accusations did Gatsby admit and which did he deny?

1. Why did Tom insist that Daisy and Gatsby should go home together?
2. At what moment did Nick remember of his age? What was the age of thirty for Nick?
3. How did Mr.Wilson behave before the accident? After it? Why did he suspect Tom of having killed Myrtle?
4. How did Tom take Myrtle’s death?
5. Comment on Carraway’s words: “I’d had enough of all of them for one day, and suddenly that included Jordan too.”
6. Why wouldn’t Nick have been surprised to know that Gatsby was going to rob the house?
7. Why had Nick disliked Gatsby so much by the time he saw him at the Buchanans’ house?
8. What could Tom and Daisy be talking about at home after the accident? Was Tom’s victory inevitable?
9. What is implied by the phrase about Gatsby “watching over nothing”?
10. What parts does the chapter fall into? How do they follow each other in time?

f. Prepare a written translation of the passage on p. 136 from “Nowadays people begin …” up to “… the last barrier of civilization”.

g. Make up your own sentences with the vocabulary in Russian for your fellow-students to translate them into English.

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