LESSoN TWELVE   TEXT  A       单词   Chiefly primarily   Grammatical   Super-star   Market   Sonic   Have authority to do sth.   Use---useful---useless-usable---usage   In dispute with sb.   Without dispute   Self-confidenceconfident   As regards sb.sth.   Regardless of   Editor---edit---edition---editorial   occur---occur to sb.   occupation---occupied   occupy oneself in doing sth.with sth.=be busy doing   Alphabet=letter   Quote   Stack sth. Up   Illustration----illustrative   Literature   In the light of   Influence on sb.sth.   Those so called friends have a bad influence on her.   Distance---distant   Forecast   Scattered   Scatter-brained   Scatter aboutover   A well-bound book   Invent---inventor---inventive   Usually   Nun   Get into troubledifficulty   Look up   Around   After   Into   Down upon   on   over   I was brought up by my grandma.   She brought up the 3 kids herself   To the best of one’s ability       课文   LESSoN TWELVE   TEXT  A                              How Dictionaries Are Made         It is widely believed that every word has a correct meaning, that we learn these meanings mainly from teachers and grammarians, and that dictionaries and grammars are the supreme authority in matters of meaning and usage. Few people ask by what authority the writers of dictionaries and grammars say what they say. I once got into a dispute with an English woman over the pronunciation of a word and offered to look it up in the dictionary. The English woman said firmly, What for?  I am English. I was born and brought up in England. The way I speak is English. Such self-assurance about ones own language is fairly common among the English. In the United States, however, anyone who is willing to quarrel with the dictionary is regarded as either eccentric or mad.