了不起的蓋茨比(純英文)/床頭燈英語.3000詞讀物

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《床頭燈英語·3000詞讀物（純英文版）：了不起的蓋茨比》：　　The house that I had rented was in one of the strangest places in the United States. It was on Long Island， New York State. The island was more than sixty miles long and just east of New York City.Between Long Island and the city was a narrow part of the Atlantic Ocean called Long Island Sound. On the ocean coast， twenty miles from New York City， there are two strange pieces ofland， both of which look a lot like eggs. They are called West Egg and East Egg and a small bay flows between them. But although they are the same in shape and size， they are also quite different in many ways.　　I lived in West Egg， the cheaper， and certainly less nice， of the two eggs. My little house was near the sea， between two very huge houses. The one on my right side was very large and was a copy of some famous house in France. It had a swimmingpool and a huge garden that would take an hour towalk around. I knew that a rich gentleman named Mr. Gatsby lived there. My house was small and ugly and looked very silly next to Gatsby's huge palace， but I could see the water from my house and I was happy.　　It was nice to live so close to such rich people.I wanted to know their stories and their secrets. I thought that I might be one of them some day. And　　this feeling grew as I looked across the water at the expensive white houses of East Egg. They looked almost like palaces standing high above the water.　　The story of my summer really begins on the day I drove over to East Egg to have dinner with Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Daisy was my cousin， but not a close one. Tom attended the same university that I did. A few years after they got married I had spent two days with them in Chicago. Still， I didn't feel close to them.　　In university Tom had been one of the strongest football players. He seemed to love the game and all of the people that watched him play.　　……