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Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switc
Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switc
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2018-04-17
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Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the radio. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and traffic to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many labor-saving devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are fast asleep, electricity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains, trolley-buses, and trams take us to and from work. We rarely bother to consider why and how they run—until something goes wrong.
In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with the power-plant that provides New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a standstill. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lift stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting as the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to stand by in case of emergency, they were just as confused and helpless as anybody else.
Meanwhile, similar disorder prevailed in the home. New York can be stifling in the summer and this year was no exception. Cool, air-conditioned apartments became furnaces. Food went bad in refrigerators. Cakes and joints of meat remained uncooked in cooling ovens, and people sat impatient and frightened in the dark as if an unseen enemy had landed from Mars. When the lights came on again, hardly a person in the city can have turned on a switch without reflecting how great a servant he had at his finger-tips.
After the night without electricity, ______.
选项
A、people would no longer buy air-conditioners
B、people would design something replaces air-conditioners
C、people would pay more attention to the electricity
D、people would think the disadvantages of the electricity
答案
C
解析
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