概括大意完成句子推荐练习文章morethan8hourssleeptomuchofagood.doc

声明： 考试吧（E） 收集整理，转载请注明出自 服务：面向较高学历人群，提供计算机类，外语类，学历类，资格类，会计类，工程类，医学类等七大类考试的全套考试信息服务及考前培训. 概括大意完成句子推荐练习文章：more than 8 hours sleep to much of a good thing, soot and snow: a hot combination, Carl Sagan, volts from the sky (C级) 概括大意完成句子推荐练习文章：more than 8 hours sleep to much of a good thing, volts from the sky, Geology and health, blasts from the past, the magic Io digital pen (A/B级) 概括大意完成句子模拟练习题： Passage 1 (难度B/C) The 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, the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus 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 variety of well-tried techniques already existed -- natural cooling, drying, smoking, slating, 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 worlds 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 expanse, busily maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated house -- while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of charge. The fridges effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant.