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The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when pa
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when pa
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2025-03-19
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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 last until Wednesday and surplus (剩余的) bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years ago, 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—natural 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),but at least you will get rid of that terrible hum. [br] Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?
选项
A、Inventors.
B、Consumers.
C、Manufacturers.
D、Traveling salesmen.
答案
B
解析
本题是一道根据文章内容推断类的题目。问按照作者的意思谁从冰箱的发明中受益最少。根据文章第三段及全文内容,冰箱投放市场,发明冰箱的人自然得利;冰箱畅销,生产厂家也获利;为了推销自己的产品,生产冰箱的厂家雇用一批人为其推销产品,一旦推销成功,巡回推销员当然也获利。唯独冰箱的消费者——买冰箱的人,花了大价钱买回了长年不断嗡嗡作响的、利用率并不很高的、而且污染环境的人工制冷设备。所以,消费者从冰箱身上获益最小。因此,本题的正确答案应是B“消费者受益最少”。
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