下面的短文后有2项测试任务：(1)第23～26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2、4、5、6段每段选择1个最佳标题；(2)第27～30题要求从所给的6个选项中为每个句子确定1个最佳选项。 The Fridge 1 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. "
2 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. 3 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... 4 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.
5 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 expanse, busily
maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated
house—while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of
charge. 6 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 but at least you’ll get
ride of that terrible hum.
A. The invention of the fridge B. The
pollution caused by fridges C. The widespread need for
fridge D. The days without the fridge E. The
waste of energy caused by fridges F. The fridge’s contribution
to commerce Paragraph 2 ______.