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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party．The time printed on the invitation was 7∶30 pm．Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food, and song．

　　By 9∶45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared．Jane and David were restless．Other guests began whispering that they, too, were starving．But no one wanted to leave, just in case some food was about to appear．By 11∶00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads．Jane and David left hungry and angry．

　　Their experience suggests that the words on the printed invitations need to be made clearer．Everyone reads and understands the invitations differently．Most of us would agree that 6∶30－8∶30 pm means drinks only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8∶00 pm or 8∶30 pm means possible dinner, but 9∶30 pm and any time thereafter means no food, eat beforehand, roll up late．

　　But this is not always the case．If asked to a students’ party at 6∶30 pm, it is normal for guests not to appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares．Being the first to arrive－looking eager－is social death．When my mother is asked to a party at 6：30, she likes to be there, if not on time, then no later than seven．My age group(late thirties)falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think we’re young, we’re probably closer to student－time than grown－up time．

　　The accepted custom at present is confusing(混乱的), sometimes annoying, and it often means you may go home hungry, but it does lend every party that precious element(成分)of surprise．

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阅读理解

　　The other day, my friend Jane was invited to a 40th birthday party．The time printed on the invitation was 7∶30 p.m．Jane went off with her husband, expecting a merry evening of wine, food and songs．

　　By 9∶45, everybody was having great fun, but no food had appeared．Jane and David were restless．Other guests began whispering that, they, too, were starving．But no one wanted to leave, just in case some food was about to appear．By 11∶00, there was still no food, and everyone was completely off their heads．Jane and David left hungry and angry．

　　Their experience suggests that the words on the printed invitations need to be made clearer．Everyone reads and understands the invitations differently．Most of us would agree that 6∶30～8∶30 p.m．means drinks only, go out to dinner afterwards; 8∶00 p.m．or 8∶30 p.m．means possible dinner, but 9∶30 p.m．and any time thereafter means to eat food beforehand roll up late．

　　But this is not always the case．If asked to a students' party at 6∶30 p.m．, it is normal for guests not to appear before midnight, if at all, and no one cares．Being the first to arrive－looking eager－is social death．When my mother is asked to a party for 6∶30, she likes to be there, if not no time, then no later than seven．My age group(late thirties )falls somewhere between the two, but because we still think we're young, we're probably closer to student-time than grown-up time．

　　The accepted custom at present is confusing(混乱的), sometimes annoying, and it often means you may go home hungry, but it does lend every party that precious element(成分)of surprise．

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Reading comprehension(阅读理解)

Language as a System of Symbols

　　Of all systems of symbols(符号)，language is the most highly developed．It has been pointed out that human beings, by agreement, can make anything stand for anything．Human beings have agreed, in the course of centuries of mutual(相互的)dependency, to let the various noises that they can produce with their lungs, throats, tongues, teeth, and lips systematically stand for certain happenings in their nervous systems．We call that system of agreements language．

　　There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which it stands for．Just as social positions can be symbolized by feathers worn on the head, by gold on the watch chain, or by a thousand other things according to the culture we live in, so the fact of being hungry can be symbolized by a thousand different noises according to the culture we live in．

　　However obvious these facts may appear at first glance, they are actually not so obvious as they seem except when we take special pains to think about the subject．Symbols and the things they stand for are independent of each other, yet we all have a way of feeling as if, and sometimes acting as if, there were necessary connections．For example, there are people who feel that foreign languages are unreasonable by nature：foreigners have such funny names for things, and why can’t they call things by their right names?This feeling exhibits itself most strongly in those English and American tourists who seem to believe that they can make the natives of any country understand English if they shout loud enough．Like the little boy who is reported to have said：“Pigs are called pigs because they are such dirty animals,”they feel the symbol is inherently(内在地)connected in some way with the things symbolized．

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