首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
(1)There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like mo
(1)There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like mo
admin
2021-10-12
51
问题
(1)There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes (滑水板) over cataracts of foam. On weekends Mr. Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes and hammer and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
(2)Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York — every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.
(3)At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre (冷盘) , spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials (加香甜酒) so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
(4)By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived — no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitiful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and comets and piccolos and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.
(5)The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.
(6)The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath — already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
(7)Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the Folies. The party has begun.
(8)I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited — they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.
(9)I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer— the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night. He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it — signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
(10)Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know — though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.
(11)As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table — the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
It can be inferred from Para. 1 that Mr. Gatsby________through the summer.
选项
A、entertained guests from everywhere every weekend
B、invited his guests to ride in his Rolls-Royce at weekends
C、liked to show off by letting guests ride in his vehicles
D、indulged himself in parties with people from everywhere
答案
A
解析
文章第一段描述了整个夏季周末派对的情形,作者从派对的音乐、参加的人群、活动、豪车在市内到处流动以及派对所需要的前后准备和劳动等一一描述。选项B为迷惑选项,从原文“On weekends Mr,Gatsby’s Rolls—Royce became an omnibus.bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight.while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains.”中可以推断选项A中所说他每周末都招待来自各地的客人是最为接近的,选项B的所说的是每周末盖茨比先生邀请他的客人乘坐的豪车,与第一段所描述的内容不相符。选项C中盖茨比先生喜欢炫富,让他的客人乘坐豪车,选项D中盖茨比先生纵情与来自不同地方的客人尽欢,其都与第一段所描述不相符。所以选项A较为合理。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/aokMFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
PASSAGETWOWhatdoesthecaseofairlinesinPara.8show?
(1)Oncethepreserveofmonastic(修道院的)retreatsandhardcoremeditators,simplybeingquietisgrowinginappeal.Wholebusine
ImprovingYourMotivationforLearningEnglishI.TheimportanceofthetechniquesforimprovingmotivationA.Necessityforlea
ImprovingYourMotivationforLearningEnglishI.TheimportanceofthetechniquesforimprovingmotivationA.Necessityforlea
PASSAGETHREEWhatwasVictoria’sonlyshortcomingasawife?
PASSAGEONEWhatcanreducethecitizens’emotionalresponseaftertheterroristattack?
(1)Iknownowthatthemanwhosatwithmeontheoldwoodenstairsthathotsummernightoverthirty-fiveyearsagowasnotat
PASSAGEONEWhatdoesPara.2tellusabouttherestaurantbusinessontheAlentejocoastthroughouttheyear?
(1)It’s7pmonabalmySaturdaynightinJune,andIhavejustorderedmyfirstbeerinICervejaria,arestaurantinZambujeir
随机试题
某女,37岁。上腹痛近半年,吐酸水,常腹泻,制酸药效果不佳。X线钡餐造影发现食管、胃及十二指肠球部均有溃疡,血清检查示:血清胃泌素530μg/ml,最有可能的诊断
A.毛细血管内压降低,动一静脉吻合支开放B.毛细血管内压升高,组织液生成增多C.毛细血管扩张,血流缓慢,微血栓形成D.毛细血管内外液体交换处于动态平衡E.毛细血管扩张,血流加快
汇票的保证人未在汇票或粘单上记载被保证人名称时,被保证人为()。
关于集气管的叙述错误的是()。
某地下车库土方工程,工程内容包括挖基础土方和基础土方回填。基础土方回填采用打夯机夯实,除基础回填所需土方外,余土全部用自卸汽车外运800m至弃土场。提供的施工场地,已按设计室外地坪一0.200m平整,土质为三类土,地下水位一0.800m,要求施工前降低地下
微型计算机中,ROM的中文名字是( )。
结转废品净损失时,应借记的科目是()。
目前,不少企业在市场营销活动中因缺乏对顾客消费心理的研究,常常因方法不当或举止不妥失去成交机会,致使长时间的业务洽谈______。因此,掌握顾客的消费心理,促成顾客的购买行为已经成为企业提高营销水平的______。填入划横线部分最恰当的一项是:
()婴儿出生时所具有的气质类型都是一样的。
Quittingsmokingismoreofamatterofwillpowerthanofindividualchoice,forsmokingiswidelyrecognizedasahardhabitth
最新回复
(
0
)