英语四级阅读训练附答案:冰箱的好与坏

　　下面是学习啦小编整理的英语四级阅读训练附答案:冰箱的好与坏，希望对大家有帮助。

　　The fridge is considered necessary. It has been sosince the 1960s when packaged food list appearedwith the label: "Store in the refrigerator."

　　In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well andhealthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer,the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-creamman delivered two or three times each week. TheSunday meatwould last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余的) bread and milk became all kinds ofcakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on fooddeliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the country.

　　The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively little to the art of food preservation.Many 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 world in search of a goodprice.

　　Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they mightprove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almostunnecessary. 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 humanhappiness has been not important. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in a foodcabinet and mm off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers(汉堡包), but atleast you'll get rid of that terrible hum.