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

The fridge is considered a necessary. 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 necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food first appeared with the label:" store in the refrigerator."
    Ira 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(乘余)bread and milk became all kinds of cakes. Nothing was wasted, and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on 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’ll get rid of that terrible hum.
Who benefited the least from fridges according to the author?
选项 A、Inventors.
B、Consumers.
C、Manufacturers.
D、Travelling salesmen.
答案B
解析 本题材要求判断谁从冰箱中得益最少。根据正常推断，消费者应是最大受益者。然而该文作者的观点恰巧相反。从第五段可以得知：世界上大多数冰箱并不足用在可能有用的热带国家，而是出现在气温宜人，冰箱并无多大用处的富裕国家。每年冬天，百万台冰箱连续不断地发出嗡嗡声，耗资巨大，在人为地加热的房子内忙碌地支持着人为地冷却空间的低温，而在室外，大自然免费地提供着人们希望的气温。从中可以看出，作者认为消费者受益最小，B符合题意。
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