Задание 13 на подготовку к ЕГЭ по английскому. В тексте имеются пропуски слов. Для каждого пропуска даны несколько вариантов. Определите, какой вариант верный.
World War I had a tremendous influence on European and American literature. The whole generation of writers who were born and raised before this war and then witnessed the atrocities of it, had their values changed. Even more / though / although / so most of them have never been in combat, the characters of their novels and short stories often were before previous former early soldiers and officers.
The young people of the Lost generation didn’t have patience to wait. They wanted to get everything ‘here and now’. Many young people of that time expected that one fine morning they will just wake / go / stand / stay up rich and famous. But the idea of working hard and saving more seemed to them quite annoying. This generation has rejected the values of their parents but the new system of values was already / less / more / yet to come.
This type of a person, characteristic to / with / of / by the Lost generation, we find in the novel by F. S. Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’. This is a story of a young man, who becomes oddly / extremely / painfully / seriously rich, but as the story unfolds, we discover that he has acquired / lent / paid / earned his money by smuggling alcohol to America in the times of ‘Dry law’. Though, in terms of law, Jay Gatsby is a criminal, we feel sympathetic to him when he dies in the end of the novel.
World War I had a tremendous influence on European and American literature. The whole generation of writers who were born and raised before this war and then witnessed the atrocities of it, had their values changed. Even though most of them have never been in combat, the characters of their novels and short stories often were former soldiers and officers.
The young people of the Lost generation didn’t have patience to wait. They wanted to get everything ‘here and now’. Many young people of that time expected that one fine morning they will just wake up rich and famous. But the idea of working hard and saving more seemed to them quite annoying. This generation has rejected the values of their parents but the new system of values was yet to come.
This type of a person, characteristic of the Lost generation, we find in the novel by F. S. Fitzgerald ‘The Great Gatsby’. This is a story of a young man, who becomes extremely rich, but as the story unfolds, we discover that he has earned his money by smuggling alcohol to America in the times of ‘Dry law’. Though, in terms of law, Jay Gatsby is a criminal, we feel sympathetic to him when he dies in the end of the novel.