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《英语写作基础教程》(A Basic Course in Wring)，主编：丁往道、吴冰等， 高等教育出版社1998年版。Chapter 1 Using Proper Words Exercises1Read the following passages, pick out from them a few common, formal and non-standard words, and say for what purposes these three types of words are used.“You’re th’ Professor here, ain’t you?” says Pa.“Yes,” says Professor Herbert, “and you are Dave’s father.”“Yes, “ says Pa, pulling out his gun and laying it on the seat in Professor Herbert’s office. Professor Herbert’s eyes got big behind his black-rimmed glasses when he saw Pa’s gun. Color came into his pale cheeks.“Jist a few things about this school I want to know,” says Pa. “I’m tryin’ to make a scholar out’n Dave. He’s the only one out’n eleven youngins I’ve sent to high school. Here he comes in late and leaves me all th’ work to do! He said you’s all out bug huntin’ yesterday and broke a cherry tree down. He had to stay two hours after school yesterday and work out money to pay on that cherry tree! Is that right?”Jesse Stuart: Split Cherry TreeA child, in growing up, may meet and learn from three different kinds of discipline. The first and most important is what we might call the Discipline of Nature or Reality. When he is trying to do something real, if he does the wrong thing or doesn’t do the right one, he doesn’t get the result he wants. If he doesn’t pile one block right on top of another, or tries to build on a slanting surface, his tower falls down. If he hits the wrong key, he hears the wrong note. If he doesn’t hit the nail squarely on the head, it bends, and he has to pull it out and start with another. If he doesn’t measure properly what he is trying to build, it won’t open, close, fit, stand up, fly, float, whistle, or do whatever he wants it to do. If he closes his eyes when he swings, he doesn’t hit the ball. A child meets this kind of discipline every time he tries to do something, which is why it is so important in school to give children more chances to do things, instead of just r