四六级考试

【单选题】 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.

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解析] 依据文章第二段第二句The milkman came daily…(每天都来…)可排除选项B。选项C在文章中没有明确提及，故C也可排除。依据文章第二段第三句The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes…文章提到剩余的面包和牛奶，所以选项A“人们不会买多余的食品”不止确。依据文章第三段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，dr ying，smoking，salting，bottling...说明在冰箱发明之前，人们已经具有保存食物的有效方法了，所以任何东西都不会浪费。选项D正确。 查看试题解析出处>>