[单项选择]If______in the fridge, the fruit can remain fresh for more than a week.
A. keeping
B. kept
C. be kept
D. to keep

[单项选择]If ______ in the fridge, the fruit can remain fresh for more than a week.
A. keeping
B. be kept
C. kept
D. to keep

[单项选择]Fresh fruit and vegetables______.
A. contain more vitamin C than any other food
B. decrease our resistance to colds
C. contain every kind of vitamin
D. increase our susceptibility to influenza

[单项选择]According to Brocklehurst, we can keep cream fresh by______
A. removing its fat
B. killing the
C. reducing its water content
D. altering its structure

[单项选择]It can be inferred from the increase of fruit consumption that______.
A. people had to spend mom on transportation and furniture
B. people were more health conscious
C. people were more money conscious
D. the price of fruit dropped dramatically

[单项选择]We can make use of seawater by ______ fresh water from it.
A. purifying
B. refraining
C. distilling
D. performers

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Passage 4 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.” 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
A. Neutral.
B. Critical.
C. Objective.
D. Compromising.

[单项选择]An Englishman invented the fridge in the 1920s.

[单项选择]The fridge's effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant.
A. 冰箱在促进人类幸福的同时，也对环保有较明显的影响。
B. 冰箱对环保的影响显而易见，对人类幸福的贡献却少之又少。
C. 冰箱对环境的影响显而易见，对人类幸福的贡献却微不足道。
D. 冰箱对环境的影响显而易见，对人类幸福也有重大贡献。