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  3. The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in

The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in

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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.
What is the author’s overall attitude toward fridges?
选项 A、Neutral.
B、Critical.
C、Objective.
D、Compromising.
答案B
解析 本题问作者对冰箱所持的总体态度是什么。通读全文，我们可以了解到作者的观点，在没有冰箱的20世纪50年代，人们吃得不错，那时的食物也有益于身体健康。而冰箱对贮藏食物、制冷方面以及环境的影响都是没有多少好处的。冰箱给世界带来的变化是增加了噪音和污染了环境。由此可以推知，本题的正确答案应是B“作者对冰箱持批评的态度”。
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