【正文】 to explain the the clerks had stopped writing to look at me.39. Reckless with misery, I made a plunge.40. Yes, the whole thing.41. You withdraw your money from the bank?42. Every cent of it.43. Are you not going to deposit any more? said the clerk,astonished.44. Never.45. An idiot hope struck me that they might think somethinghad insulted me while I was writing the cheque and thatI had changed my mind. I made a wretched attempt to looklike a man with a fearfully quick temper.46. The clerk prepared to pay the money.47. How will you have it? he said.48. What?49. How will you have it?50. OhI caught his meaning and answered without eventrying to thinkin fifties.51. He gave me a fiftydollar bill.52. And the six? he asked dryly.53. In sixes, I said.54. He gave it me and I rushed out.55. As the big door swung behind me I caught the echo of aroar of laughter that went up to the ceiling of the then I bank no more. I keep my money in cash in mytrousers pocket and my savings in silver dollars in asock.Unit 2TEXT I A（P 21）Englishes Randolph Quirk1 Of course a scale of of styles exists in all our use of of us works not just with one English but with many Englishes,and the wider the range of our life and the more various the contacts we have,the wider and suppler must be our mand over a range of English styles, each of witch we know how to use consistently. A haphazard knowledge of several styles may be worse than useless if we do not know the type of occasion on which each is appropriate,or if we do not know when we are sliding from one to do not say, “It was extremely gracious of you to invite me,Lady Jones,and I’ve had bags of fun ”,because “bags of fun” does not mix with “extremely gracious”,and because to use an expression like “bags of fun,” we should need to knoe Lady Jones well enough to be addressing he by first name.2 It is not—we must never tire of insisting—that bags of fun can be labelled “bad” or “slovenly” English, “a lazy substitute for thought”. “Bags of fun” is no more a lazy substitute for thought in its approprite setting than is “extremely gracious”in the seting that is appropriate for this we have seen repeatedly, it is the height of naivety to go round with a single yardstick,measuring English as “good” or “bad”. Take the opening suggested earlier for an informal letter: “My dear Frank, it was awfully nice to get your note the other day.’ Here are the words that would greatly pleased the receiver with their warmth and friendliness, yet they include awfully ,get and nice, three words which have been condemned so often that many people cannot write them without having a slightfreeling of have been called “slovenly” and even “meaningless”. Such an attitude is plainly ridiculous and can do nothing but harm to the good use of English.3 But it would be equally ridiculous to reverse the judgement just as is the type of judgement that is wrong : it is not merely that the judgement is faulty in this particular instance. If we were studing a review and found the ment “This is an awfully nice book,” our reaction to the words in this situation might well be to call them slovenly and meaningless. We do not want merely po。t you e? Won39。sitting here. Let39。s name?9. 39。t seen Jesus either, but who was now sitting proudly on the platform, swinging his knickerbockered legs and grinning down at me, surrounded by deacons and old women on their knees praying. God had not struck Westley dead for taking his name in vain or for lying in the temple. So I decided that maybe to save further trouble, I39。t e to help me.Unit 4TEXT I （P 61）Writing Between the Lines 　Mortimer 1. You know you have to read between the lines to get the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to write between the lines. Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading.2. I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but love.7. Why is marking up a book indispensable to reading? First, it keeps you awake. (And I don39。s like resuming an interrupted conversation with the advantage of being able to pick up where you left off.11. And that is exactly what reading a book should be: a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do。ll get about 30,000 turns out you can “enquire” about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia (“Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!”), to putertrainingby courses in India (“Where excellence is not an act but a habit”). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a pany that specializes in “ pet moving.” Enquire about buying industrialage buts and bolts from “the Bolt Boys” in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York. Exotic cigar labels! Fourposter beds for dogs!2. So what, you say? Everybody knows that with a mouse, a modem and access to the Internet, these days you can pointandclick anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or longdistance phone tariffs.3. Ah, but scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you’ll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: “Enquire Within Upon Everything”—a nifty little puter program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim BernersLee. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilizationaltering, millionairespawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide Web?4. Unlike so many of the inventions that have moved the world, this one truly was the work of one man. Thomas Edison got credit for the light bulb, but he had dozens of people in his lab working on it. William Shockley may have fathered the transistor, but two of his research scientists actua