Номер 8, страница 10 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Вербицкая, Маккинли

Unit one.

Track four.

It was only during my last conversation with Gatsby that I discovered the truth.

Gatsby: I think it's time for me to tell you a secret, Nick. I'm not from a rich family, after all.

Gatsby: My parents were poor farmers.

Nick: Well, I think I had guessed they weren't rich somehow.

Gatsby: But you know, old sport, even as a boy, I had dreamed of being a success. I knew I was going to be big.

Gatsby: I remember I came up with a daily program for myself to make my dream come true. I used to start work on the farm at a quarter past seven every morning.

Gatsby: So I used to get up earlier and study science books and do exercises.

Gatsby: Then before I went to bed, I used to practice elocution, even how to walk in an elegant way.

Nick: What? Even when you were a boy?

Gatsby: Yes. I suppose I was eleven or twelve years old at the time.

Gatsby: Finally, when I was seventeen, I got a job working as a steward on a millionaire's yacht.

Gatsby: He taught me a lot about how to be a gentleman. But he died.

Gatsby: So I joined the army and that's when I fell in love with Daisy.

Nick: I know.

Gatsby: But I knew I was too poor for her.

Gatsby: I was at Oxford when I found out that she had got married to Tom. It broke my heart, Nick.

Gatsby: A few years after the war, I finally came back to the States. I knew that Daisy would never love me if I didn't have any money. So I started working with criminal gangs.

Gatsby: I'm very useful to them. I have a nice smile. I dress well. I have a good education and a medal from the war. And now I have enough money to live here in West Egg. To be close to Daisy. Don't you understand?

Nick: But does she love you?