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二、阅读理解：阅读下面的短文，根据文章内容进行判断，正确为“T”，错误为“F”。

The fridge is considered necessary. It has been so since the 1960s when packaged food list appeared with the label: "Store in the refrigerator."

In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, 1 was fed well and healthy. The milkman came every day, the grocer, the butcher (肉商), the baker, and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times each week. The Sunday meat would last until Wednesday and surplus(剩余的) 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. Many 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 the world in search of a good price.

Consequently, most of the world's fridges are to be found, not in the tropics where they might prove useful, but in the rich countries with mild temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. 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 human happiness has been not important.

The statement "In my fridgeless fifties childhood, I was fed well and healthily." suggests that the author was well-fed and healthy even without a fridge in his fifties. 1

2. The author says that nothing was wasted before the invention of fridges because people had effective ways to preserve food. 2

3. Consumers benefited the most from fridges according to the author? 3

4. What refrigeration did promote was food-preserving. 4

5. The author is critical to fridges. 5

二、阅读理解：判断题题（每题10分）

Now read the passageand decide if the following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F).

Helping International Students Make Friends

One study in the United States found that thirty-eight percent of foreign students said they had no close American friends.

Elisabeth Gareis teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College in New York. She says efforts on how to improve relationships between foreign and American students have yet to be studied in detail. But she says these efforts should begin with the college or university, and that these institutions have been working harder.

Ms. Gareis suggests that students should be encouraged to take part in different activities, such as taking walks, going on bike rides, field or camping trips, and attending parties, sporting events or film festivals. She says such activities should be held repeatedly throughout the school term to bring students together. She also suggests that foreign students share housing with American students.

She says if the new students make friends as they begin school, they will come to feel part of the life and traditions of the university, as well as create long lasting friendships throughout their university career.

1. A study showed that 38% foreign students had many close American friends. 1
2. Universities have been working on improving the relationships between foreign and American students. 2
3. Ms. Gareis thinks taking part in some activities is a good way to improve the relationship. 3
4. Ms. Gareis says the activities shouldn’t be held repeatedly throughout the term. 4
5. Making friends when they begin school is helpful for the students to create long lasting friendships. 5