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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 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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2012-07-17
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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.
The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily. " (Line 1, Para. 2) suggests that______.
选项
A、the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties
B、the author was not accustomed to using 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
本题是一道句子含义类问题。问第二段第一句话是什么意思。在这句话里可能产生歧义的词是fifties,当它用在in one’s fifties结构中时,表示“在某人五十几岁的时候”;当它用在in the fifties结构中时,表示“在50年代”。本句中In my fridgeless fifties childhood…,该词与fridgeless一起做形容词用,说的是“在作者没有冰箱的童年,当时正值20世纪50年代”。因此,本题的正确答案应是C“在20世纪50年代作者家里没有冰箱”。
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