学位英语--完形填空

更新时间: 试题数量: 购买人数: 提供作者:

有效期: 个月

章节介绍: 共有个章节

收藏
搜索
题库预览
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.
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【1】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【2】use. Even before 1880, half the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and one-third of【3】sold in Boston and Chicago, went to families for their own uses.This had become possible because a new household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator had been【4】 . Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the early nineteenth century, the knowledge of the physics of heat,【5】was essential to a science of refrigeration, was rudimentary. 【6】(原始文章被删减)early efforts to economize ice included wrapping the ice in blankets.【7】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【8】Maryland farmer, Thomas Moore, had been on the right track. He owned a farm about twenty miles outside the city of Washington.When he used an icebox【9】design to transport his butter to market, he found that customers would pay a premium price for his butter still fresh and hard in neat, one-pound bricks. One【10】of the icebox Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market at night in order to keep their product cool.