Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language（）

单项选择题All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain except （）.

A. George Eliot
B. Iris Jean Murdoch
C. Doris Lessing
D. Muriel Spark

单项选择题Who wrote The American（）

A. Herman Melville
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry James
D. Theodore Dreiser

单项选择题We arrived at work in the morning and found that somebody （）into the office during the night.

A. broke
B. had broken
C. has broken
D. was breaking

单项选择题The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by （）.

A. William Langland
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Alfred Tennyson

单项选择题The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is （）.

A. the President
B. the Governor-General
C. the British monarch
D. the Prime Minister

单项选择题Please call my secretary to arrange a meeting this afternoon, or （）it is convenient to you.

A. whenever
B. however
C. whichever
D. wherever

单项选择题The villagers have already known （）we'll do is to build the bridge.

A. this
B. that
C. what
D. which

单项选择题Why don't you bring （）to his attention that you're too ill to work on

A. that
B. it
C. this
D. him

单项选择题Dr. Smith was always （）the poor and the sick, often providing them with free medical care.

A. reminded of
B. absorbed in
C. tended by
D. concerned about

单项选择题Most people agree that the present role of women has already affected U,S. society. （）, it has affected the traditional role of men.

A. Above all
B. In all
C. At most
D. At last