Задание

Read the text and fill in the words.
From “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott  Fitzgerald
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today. I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look like him-with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father’s office. I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless. Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe-so I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in  so I supposed it could support one more single man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, ‘Why-yees’ with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two

  • Объекты 1
    • The author and his father____
    • The author’s family_____
    • The author’s grandfather____
    • The author was going____
    • The author decided to move east because____
  • Объекты 2
    • he didn’t enjoy life in this part of the country any more.
    • started their family business.
    • graduated from the same educational establishment.
    • has never suffered from the lack of money and people’s attention.
    • to work in the financial sphere.