阅读理解 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 1831 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 Pemberton 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—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 tea-spoonful 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.
单选题 46.What does the passage tell us about John Styth Pemberton?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本题可根据第一段的内容。第一段中说,创造了可口可乐的人并非亚特兰大本地人,但是在他的葬礼那天,镇上所有商店都象征性地停业了。因此A项“他深受亚特兰大人的尊敬”是正确答案。
单选题 47.Which of the following was unique to Frank M. Robinson, working with the Pemberton's Company?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的依据句是“so exceptional a nose that he could audit the composition of a batch of syrup merely by sniffling it”。从中可知,C项“有敏锐的嗅觉”是正确答案。
单选题 48.Why was the year 1886 so special to Pemberton?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】本题的依据句是文中的“Pemberton unveiled a syrup that he called CocaCola”,从中可知B项“他发明了种赢利的产品”是正确答案。
单选题 49.One modification made of French Wine Coca formula was______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】本题的依据句是“had thrown in some extract of cola nut and a few other oils”,从中可知D项“加了些可乐果汁”是正确答案。
单选题 50.According to the passage, Coca-Cola was in the first place prepared especially for______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题的依据句是“Pemberton looked upon his mixture less as a refreshment than as a headache cure,especially for people whose headache could be traced to overindulgence”。从中可知,可口可乐最初是用来缓解宿醉引起的头痛的,因此C项为正确答案。
单选题 51.The last paragraph mainly tells______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】最后一段讲了个故事,叙述可口可乐如何偶然诞生。因此D项“个偶然的事件使可口可乐诞生”是正确答案。