首页
登录
职称英语
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when pac
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when pac
游客
2023-09-26
68
管理
问题
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in the refrigerator."
In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would until Wednesday and surplus (剩余) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.
The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation. A vast way of well-tried techniques already existed—nature cooling, drying, smoking, salting, sugaring, bottling.
What refrigeration did promote was marketing—marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price. Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially heated house"—while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.
The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant, if you don’t believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and turn off your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers (汉堡包), out at least you’ll get rid of that terrible hum.
选项
A、the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties
B、the author was not accustomed to use fridges even in his fifties
C、there was no fridge in the author’s home in the 1950s
D、the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s
答案
C
解析
细节题。在本题中读者可以根据单词构成的相关知识,猜测出由fridge和less构成的fridgeless意思是“没有冰箱的”,如同homeless和hopeless两个单词的意思分别是“无家可归的”和“毫无希望的”。然后根据fifties和childhood两个单词判断出,时间是20世纪50年代,也就是作者的童年时期,而不是作者五十几岁的时候。因此,正确的答案应该是C。
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3048747.html
相关试题推荐
ThomasEdisondidthingsinthisorder______.[br]Edisonconsideredhisdeafne
WhatwereHalleBerryandKateHustonconsideredas?HalleBerryandKateHuston
WhatwereHalleBerryandKateHustonconsideredas?HalleBerryandKateHuston
WhatwereHalleBerryandKateHustonconsideredas?HalleBerryandKateHuston
Ifyouworkatsuchaslowpace,youwillneverbeconsideredfor(promote)____
Allthings______,hercompositionisbetterthanyours.A、consideredB、consideri
If______inthefridge,thefruitcanremainfreshformorethanaweek.A、keeping
If______inthefridge,thefruitcanremainfreshformorethanaweek.A、keeping
Toomuchmetalinthesoilisconsideredpollution.Yettoolittlemetalin
Allthings______,herpaperisofgreatervaluethanmine.A、havingconsideredB
随机试题
[img]2014m3s/ct_etoefm_etoefwritea_0539_20138[/img]Whenpeopleseekaneduc
[originaltext]Atabout8p.m.onJuly6th,eight-year-oldJessewasplayin
二十八岁不孕妇女,痛经3年且逐渐加重。查子宫后壁有2个触痛性硬韧结节,右侧附件区
试述促使静脉血栓形成的常见原因。
跑步比赛时,运动员听到发令枪响,马上起跑。这种现象是()。A.同化 B.
患者,男性,50岁,脾大,血中淋巴细胞比例76%,疑诊多毛细胞白血病,确诊首选的
该柱子能承受的轴向力设计值N最接近于()kN。A..407.6
近日,共青团中央发布了《中国青年发展蓝皮书》(以下简称《蓝皮书》),聚焦中国青年
男,20岁。牙松动1年。否认全身性疾病史。检查:牙面少量牙石,全口牙龈红肿,探诊
甲公司是一家机械加工企业,产品生产需要某种材料,年需求量为720吨(一年按3
最新回复
(
0
)