The utterance "We are already working 25 hours a day, eight days a week. " obviously violates the maxim of （）.

单项选择题The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as （）in the literary history of the United States.

A．the Age of Enlightenment
B．the Age of Romanticism
C．New England Transcendentalism
D．the Age of Realism

单项选择题As one of the best-known American authors of 20th century, Ernest Hemingway wrote all the following novels EXCEPT （）.

A．For Whom the Bell Tolls
B．The Green Hills of Africa
C．The Sound and the Fury
D．The Old Man and the Sea

单项选择题Mom, have a rest please. You （）in the kitchen ever since you came home.

A．bad worked
B．were working
C．have been working
D．would work

单项选择题—Jerry and Lucy must both like movies. I often meet them at the cinema. —（） is Lucy, not Jerry, who likes movies.

A．So
B．That
C．It
D．Such

单项选择题During the last Olympics, all the rooms in the Olympic Village in London are so designed that they are （）to the disabled.

A．accessible
B．available
C．convenient
D．valid

单项选择题—Which shirt will you take, Betty —（）. The blue one is too long and the white one is too short.

A．Both
B．Neither
C．Either
D．None

单项选择题Advertisements give us （）about products, such as their prices and uses.

A．information
B．news
C．words
D．pictures

单项选择题Austin和Searle的理论是任务型教学语研究一个十分重要的理论来源。Searle认为，语言交际单位不是单词或句子等语言单位，而是（）。

A．语言行为
B．言语行为
C．文字符号
D．心理表征

单项选择题There are two general rules for giving instuctions; they must be kept as simple as possible, and they must be（）.

A．logical
B．feasible
C．authentic
D．natural

单项选择题英语与汉语不尽相同，英语是（）。就英语阅读过程而言，阅读首先是个体把文字符号转换为语音码的过程；其次，英语语音与字母或字母组合有着相对的对应关系，其语音操作由语义潜势；其三，Baddeley的研究表明，语音是短时工作记忆的载体。

A．语言符号系统
B．音节文字系统
C．拼音文字系统
D．表意文字系统