Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space.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 over cataracts of foam.
What does the author describe in the excerpt?
【正确答案】：
THE AUTHOR GIVES A WONDERFUL DESCRIPTION OF GATSBY’S PARTY THAT EVOKES BOTH THE ROMANCE AND THE SADNESS OF THAT STRANGE AND FASCINATING ERA WHICH WE CALL THE TWENTIES.
【题目解析】：根据文中的关键词：music， champagne， guests等可以判断出，这一段作者对盖茨比的派对进行了精彩的描述，它唤起了我们称之为20年代的那个奇怪而迷人的时代的浪漫和悲伤。
