大學英語四級閱讀練習題及答案十五

1、The fridge is considered necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food list appeared with the label: "Store in the ref ri ger at or. "In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy.The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher （ 肉商 ）, the baker, and the

2、 ice-cream mandelivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meatwould 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 on food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtai

3、nable 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 electric

4、ity, marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world 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 rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unn

5、ecessary. Every winter, millions of fridges hum away continuously, and at vast expense, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside anartificially-heated house - while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge.while漢堡包 ),well andThe fridge s effect upon the environme

6、nt has been evident, its contribution to human happiness has been not important. If you don t believe me, try it yourself, invest in a food cabinet and mm off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers( but at least you ll get rid of that terrible hum.練習題：Choose correct answers to the q

7、uestion:statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed healthily." suggests that.author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties.author was not accustomed to fridges even in his fifties.was no fridge in the author s home in the 1950s.fridge was in its early s

8、tage of development in the 1950s.does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?would not buy more food than was necessary.was delivered to people two or three times a week.was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.had effective ways to preserve their food.benefited t

9、he least from fridges according to the author?A. Inventors.B. Consumers.C. Manufacturers.D. Travelling salesmen.of the following phrases in the fifth paragraph indicates thefridge s negative effect on the environment?A. “ Hum away continuously ”.B. “ Climatically almost unnecessary ”.C.“ Artificiall

10、y- cooled space ”.D.“ With mild temperatures ”.is the author s overall attitude toward fridges?A. Neutral.B. Critical.C. Objective.D. Compromising.1 .C 句意理解題。由句中的childhood 可知， fifties 指的應該是50年代，而不可能是50 多歲，據(jù)此可排除A、 B;fridgeless 是合成詞，由詞根fridge" 冰箱”和表示否定的后綴 -less 組成，由可推斷其意為“無冰箱的 "，故C正確。2 .D 事實細節(jié)題。在第2段中，說到“不會浪費東西”前，作者指出把吃剩的面包和牛奶做成蛋糕，以防止浪費，故D正確。A C在文中并未提及，排除 ;B 所述并非不浪費食物的原因，也可排除。3 .B 觀點態(tài)度題。綜觀全文，作者對認為冰箱不是必備品，最后一段 更明確指出，它對人類幸福的貢獻微不足道，故可推斷，消費者從冰箱中獲益最少，故B 正確。4 .A詞義理解題。A中的hum指"發(fā)出嗡嗡聲”，表明冰箱產生的嗓音， 是對環(huán)境的負