首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The man who invented Coca-Cola was not a native Atlantan, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town testimonially sh
The man who invented Coca-Cola was not a native Atlantan, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town testimonially sh
admin
2013-11-29
66
问题
The man who invented Coca-Cola was not a native Atlantan, but on the day of his funeral every drugstore in town testimonially shut up shop. He was John Styth Pemberton, born in 1833 in Knoxville, Georgia, eighty miles away. Sometimes known as Doctor, Pemberton was a pharmacist who, during the Civil War, led a cavalry troop under General Joe Wheeler. He settled in Atlanta in 1869, and soon began brewing such patent medicines as Triplex Liver Pills and Globe of Flower Cough Syrup. In 1885, he registered a trademark for something called French Wine Coca—Ideal Nerve and Tonic Stimulant; a few months later he formed the Pemherton Chemical Company, and recruited the services of a bookkeeper named Frank M. Robinson, who not only had a good head for figures but, attached to it, so exceptional a nose that he could audit the composition of a batch of syrup merely by sniffling it. In 1886, a year in which, as contemporary Coca-Cola officials like to point out, Conan Doyle unveiled Sherlock Holmes and France unveiled the Statue of Liberty-Pemberton unveiled a syrup that he called Coca-Cola. It was a modification of his French Wine Coca. He had taken out the wine and added a pinch of caffeine, and, when the end product tasted awful, had thrown in some extract of cola nut and a few other oils, blending the mixture in a three-legged iron pot in his back yard and swishing it around with an oar. He distributed it to soda fountains in used beer bottles, and Robinson, with his flowing bookkeeper’s script, presently devised a label, on which "Coca-Cola" was written in the fashion that is still employed. Pemberton looked upon his mixture less as a refreshment than as a headache cure, especially for people whose headache could be traced to over-indulgence.
On a morning late in 1886, one such victim of the night before dragged himself into an Atlanta drugstore and asked for a dollop of Coca-Cola. Druggists customarily stirred a teaspoonful of syrup into a glass of water, but in this instance the man on duty was too lazy to walk to the fresh-water tap, a couple of feet off. Instead, he mixed the syrup with some soda water, which was closer at hand. The suffering customer perked up almost at once, and word quickly spread that the best Coca-Cola was a fizzy one.
The last paragraph mainly tells ______.
选项
A、the complaint against the lazy shop-assistant
B、a real test of Coca-Cola as a headache cure
C、the mediocre service of the drugstore
D、a happy accident that gave birth to Coca-Cola
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ORhO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Whilestillcatching-uptomeninsomespheresofmodernlife,womenappeartobewayaheadinatleastoneundesirablecategory.
Whilestillcatching-uptomeninsomespheresofmodernlife,womenappeartobewayaheadinatleastoneundesirablecategory.
Thewaythatpeoplespendtheirmoney,andtheobjectsonwhichtheyspendit,arethelastareaswherefreechoiceandindividu
Millionsofindividualsallaroundtheworldareinovertheirheadsindebt.Debtcanturnanindividualortheirfamily’slife
Thefitnessmovementthatbeganinthelate1960sandearly1970scenteredaroundaerobicexercise.Millionsofindividualsbeca
Thelocalauthoritiesseemedto_____fortheaccidenttakingplacelastweek.
FlowersfortheDeadSinceflowerssymbolizenewlife,itmayseeminappropriatetohavethematfunerals.Yetpeopleinmany
Newtechnologylinkstheworldasneverbefore.Ourplanethasshrunk.It’snowa"globalvillage"wherecountriesareonlyseco
Leavingforworkinplentyoftimetocatchthetrainwill______worryaboutbeinglate.
Onleavingschoolhebecameanoffice-boyandhavingno______torisehigher,heonlywastedhistime.
随机试题
全民族抗战爆发的标志是()
空调工程水系统的设备与附属设备、管道、管配件及阀门的()应符合设计规定
下列燃气和热水管网附属设备中,属于燃气管网独有的是()。
改变合伙企业名称,应得到()合伙人同意。
正常新生儿每分钟心跳次数为()。
分析“二战”后印度民族运动的特点和印巴分治的原因。
若级数发散,则()
对于MOV指令,不可以将一个存储单元的内容______另一个存储单元。
Whatkindofproductisadvertisedinthepassage?What’sthebrandnameoftheproducts?
MysteryofTimeIfyoucanreadaclock,youcanknowthetimeofday.Butnooneknowswhattimeitselfis.Wecannotsee
最新回复
(
0
)