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The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when pa

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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 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] Which of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates the fridge’s negative effect on the environment?
选项 A、Hum away continuously.
B、Climatically almost unnecessary.
C、Artificially-cooled space.
D、With mild temperatures.
答案 A
解析 本题是一道具体细节题。问在第五段作者提到的冰箱对环境带来的负面作用是什么。文章第五段指出，大部分冰箱用在气候温和的发达国家，而不是用在可能让它发挥些作用的热带国家。即使冬天，在开着暖气的室内也要放一台人工制冷的冰箱，让它嗡嗡地转个不停，实在是一笔可观的开销。由此可见，本题的正确答案应是A“不断地嗡嗡作响构成了对环境的负面作用”。
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