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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 deliverieshave ceased, fresh vegettbIes 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 techniquesady already existed natural cooling, drying, smoking, salting,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 ,Tealthy 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 hasbeen 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.
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invention of the fridge.
pollution caused by fridges.
widespread need for fridges.
days without the fridge.
waste of energy caused by fridges.
fridge's contribution to commerce.
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School Lunch
Research has shown that over half the children in Britain who take their own lunches to school do not eat __________ (51) in the middle of the day. In Britain schools have to __________(52)meals at lunchtime. Children can__________(53) to bring their own food or have lunch at the school canteen.
One shocking finding of this research is that school meals are much __________ (54) than lun-ches prepared by parents. There are strict__________(55) for the preparation of school meals,which have to include one __________(56) of fruit and one of vegetables, as well as meat, a dairy item and starchy food like bread or pasta. Lunchboxes __________( 57 ) by researchers contained sweet drinks, crisps and chocolate bars. Children__________(58) twice as much sugar as they should at lunchtime.
The research will__________ (59) a better understanding of why the percentage of overweight students in Britain has__________ (60) in the last decade. Unfortunately, the government cannot__________(61) parents, but it can remind them of the__________ (62) value of milk, fruit and veg-etables. Small changes in their children's diet can__________(63)their future health. Children can easily develop bad eating__________(64) at this age, and parents are the only ones who can __________ (65)it.
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5、Housewives who do not go out to work often feel they are not working to their full ability.
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8、In general, the British people belong to one of the more affluent countries of Europe and enjoy a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world.
