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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
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2023-09-26
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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 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。
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