One morning a young woman, who has recently lost her first job, was examining the advertisements in the paper in search of other work. Suddenly she called out to her mother, who was in the kitchen. "Listen to this, Mother!" she cried. "I’ye found an easy way of making money."
"What is it" her mother asked, coming into the room. "Listen," said the girl, and read the advertisement aloud: "Do you want to make money Send me a postal order for five pence, together with a stamped, addressed envelope. You will receive a reply showing you how to make hundreds of pounds without leaving your house." Then there’s a name and address.
"Nonsense!" said her mother. "You’ll only lose five pence and the cost of a postal order and two stamps. If he knows how to do that, why doesn’t he do it himself Why does he need to advertise You won’t get an answer."
"Well, five pence
A. Send a postal for five pence and an envelope with a stamp and her address.
B. Continue to read the latter half of the advertisement.
C. Send some money.
D. Buy some envelopes.
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 trade- mark for something called French Wine Coca Ideal Nerve and
Tonic Stimulant; a few months later be 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. 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 我来回答: 提交
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