英语四级阅读训练附答案:冰箱的好与坏

　　What refrigeration did promote was marketing --- marketing hardware and electricity,marketing soft drinks, marketing dead bodies of animals around the world in search of a goodprice.

　　Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they mightprove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almostunnecessary. 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 humanhappiness has been not important. If you don't believe me, try it yourself, invest in a foodcabinet and mm off your fridge next winter. You may not eat the hamburgers(汉堡包), but atleast you'll get rid of that terrible hum.