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The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when【S1
The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when【S1
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2023-07-24
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The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when【S1】______food first appeared with the label :"store in the refrigerator."
In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was【S2】______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【S3】______bread mid milk became ’all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by【S4】______food. Thirty years on food deliveries have【S5】______,fresh vegetables are almost【S6】______in the country.
The invention of the fridge【S7】______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【S8】______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【S9】______almost unnecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away conti nuously, 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【S10】______. 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, but at least you’ll get rid of that terrible hum.
A)container B)fed C)maintain
D)rotten E)reduce F)unobtainable
G)discontinued H).promote I)shortage
J)insignificant K)packaged L)contributed
M)surplus N)climatically O)ceased [br] 【S5】
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O
解析
cease意为“终止,停止”,为不及物动词,例如:a process that never ceases (永不停止的过程)。 discontinue 意为“中断,放弃”。根据上下文的含义,三十年后食品送货上门的业务已经取消。
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