Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the term "icebox" had entered the American language, but ice was still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice trade grew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and one-third of that sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had been invented.

Making an efficient ice box was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one that prevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice that performed the cooling. Nevertheless, early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenth century did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for an efficient icebox.

But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington, for which the village of Georgetown was the market center. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pass up the rapidly melting stuff in the tubs of his competitors to pay a premium price for his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One advantage of his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their produce cool.

The author mentions “fish” because _________.

A. many fish dealers also sold ice

B. fish was shipped in refrigerated freight cars 

C. fish dealers were among the early commercial users of ice 

D. fish was not part of the ordinary person's diet before the invention of the icebox 

Answer 1

Tác giả đề cập đến “fish” bởi vì ________.

A. rất nhiều người buôn bán cá cũng bán đá

B. cá được vận chuyển ở trong toa vận chuyển hàng hóa đông lạnh

C. những người buôn bán cá là một trong những người sử dụng đá đầu tiên

D. cá không phải là một phần trong chế độ ăn uống bình thường của một người trước khi người ta phát minh ra “icebox”

Thông tin: Ice was used in hotels, taverns, and hospitals, and by some forward-looking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter.

Tạm dịch: Đá được sử dụng ở các khách sạn, quán trọ, bệnh viện và bởi một vài thương gia thành phố có quan niệm tân tiến khi họ buôn bán thịt tươi, cá tươi và bơ.

Chọn C