What is going on in this part of the novel?
Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space.He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face 一 the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
What is going on in this part of the novel?
【正确答案】:

NICK WAS INVITED TO A PARTY WITHOUT ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE HOST. COINCIDENTALLY, WHEN NICK CASUALLY CHATTED WITH A MAN AT THE PARTY, HE WAS TOLD BY GATSBY THAT HE WAS THAT"GATSBY WHO HELD THE PARTY",LEAVING NICK IN EXCLAMATION. THEN CAME THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION OF GATSBY'S SMILE. IT HAPPENED TO BE A RECOLLECTION OF GATSBY BY NICK.


【题目解析】:尼克在不知道主人是谁的情况下受邀参加一个party。巧合的是,他发现在party上和一个人闲聊时,对方正是party的主人盖茨比。上述引文中的部分正是Nick 对盖茨比的微笑,个性和人品的描写。
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