My invention resulted in ().
A.fail
B. failure
C. succeed
D. happy
A.fail
B. failure
C. succeed
D. happy
In 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 (剩余) 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 contrinbution 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 rid of that terrible hum.
The statement “In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily.”(Line 1, Para. 2) suggests that______.
A.the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties
B.the author was not accustomed to using fridges even in his fifties
C.there was no fridge in the author' s home in the 1950s
D.the fridge was in its early stage of development in the 1950s
It was (him) who did all the work (on) the invention, but somebody (else) got (all the credit).
A.him
B.on
C.else
D.all the credit
A.He is remembered
B.To remember
C.While remembering
D.Though remembered
The author predicts that _________.
A. advances in new technologies will lead to great changes of society
B. the single invention, the chip, will lead to great changes in society
C. the future picture of the world can only be imagined by looking back
D. the use of personal computer and factory robots will be widespread
The new invention is to make our daily life easier, ______it more difficult.
A.not to make
B.not make
C.not making
D.do not make
Why does the author say that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges?
A.People would not buy more food than was necessary.
B.Food was delivered to people two or three times a week.
C.Food was sold fresh and did not get rotten easily.
D.People had effective ways to preserve their food.
According to the passage, what does Keith want to do with his invention?
A.He wants to put his products into the market.
B.He wants to run an electronics company.
C.He wants to sell his idea of the machine to an electronics company.
D.He wants to go to Germany with his new machine.
But you will say, you need not have your name printed in the telephone directory, and you can have a telephone which is only usable for outgoing calls. Besides, you will say, isn't it important to have a telephone in case of sudden emergency--illness, accident, or fire? Of course, you are right, but here in a thickly populated country like England one is seldom far from a telephone in case of dreadful necessity.
I think perhaps I had better try to justify myself by trying to prove that what I like is good. I admit that in different circumstances--if I were a tycoon(实业界巨头) , for instance, or bed-ridden I might find a telephone essential. But then if I were a taxi-driver I should find a car essential. Let me put it another way: there are two things for which the English seem to show particular aptitude: one is mechanical invention, the other is literature. My own business happens to be with the use of words but I see I must now stop using them. For have just been handed a slip of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone. I think I had better answer it. After all, one never knows, it may be something important.
What does the work "pest" in the second sentence of the first paragraph mean? ()
A.Harmful thing.
B.Insignificant thing.
C.Troublesome thing
D.Trivial thing
Which of the following can best express the main idea of the passage? ()
A.Henry Ford changed American society with his invention of cars.
B.Henry Ford had a personality different from ordinary people.
C.Henry Ford was one of the greatest American industrialists.
D.Henry Ford built the first assembly line in the world.
The writer believes that______.
A.serious writers would rather not use the word "Okay"
B.the word is invented by a political organization
C.the word is absolutely an American invention
D.the word was first used by the Indians
A.it was man’s first real invention
B.all transportation depends on it
C.every machine depends on it
D.both B and C