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Fridge The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "s
Fridge The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label: "s
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2009-06-15
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Fridge
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 kinks of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on, food deliveries have ceases, 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 glode in search of search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be round, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically amost 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 charg.
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’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、the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s
D、there was no fridge in the author’s home in the 1950s
答案
D
解析
这句话的含义是:在50年代我还是个孩子,那时没有冰箱,可我被喂养得很好,很健康。由此可知D是这句话的正确含义。A、B中的in his fifties意思为“在他50多岁时”。
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