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Passage 2
Imagine summer without the refrigerator： hot days with no cold beer, no ice for your fruit drinks, and...probably very little fresh food at all. Artificial cold is key to every part of our current food supply chain, from the farm to the grocery store to the table.
But when it was first introduced in the nineteenth century, industrial refrigeration (制冷)faced negative reaction from the public.In a 2008 paper, Susanne E. Friedberg explains why, focusing on one refrigerated daily food : the egg.
To illustrate the importance of refrigeration for eggs, Friedberg notes that they used to be a seasonal food.Before modem breeds were developed, hens laid most of their eggs in the spring. That meant that fresh eggs were unavailable or very expensive for most of the year.

Artificial refrigeration promised a solution. By 1904, Friedberg writes, there were more than 600 cold-storage warehouses in the U. S. One facility in Boston had room for 150 million eggs at a time.
But many customers were unimpressed with these new facilities. That was partly because, at first, cold storage often wasn, t done very well. Warehouse managers didn, t always know what temperature was best for various kinds of food.Eggs stored for a long
Another reason for consumers ’ distrust of refrigeration was actual untrustworthy behavior by companies. Some merchants put food into cold storage when it was already going bad.Retailers bought the stored eggs either with blind faith or accepted the situa
Finally, poultry farmers developed a new technical solution. By breeding new kinds of hens, adjusting their feed, and using artificial light to trick them into thinking spring had arrived early, they created a steady supply of eggs throughout the year. Me
A.Enthusiasm.
B.Distrust.
C.Indifference.
D.Puzzlement.

试题出自试卷《2018年10月自考综合英语(一)(00794)真题及答案》

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