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. He was highly respected by Atlantans. B. He ran a drug store that also sells wine. C. He had been a doctor until the Civil War. D. He made a lot of money with his pharmacy. [单项选择]Who should sign up [A] Only students who have time for the work. [B] All the students who are at the meeting. [C] Only students who have a telephone.
[单项选择]One day, a poor man, who had only one piece of bread to eat, was walking past a restaurant. There was a large pot of soup on the table. The poor man held his bread over the soup, so the steam from the soup went into the bread, and gave it a good smell’. Then he ate the bread.
The restaurant owner was very angry at this, and he asked the man for money, in exchange for the steam from the soup. The poor man had no money, so the restaurant owner took him to Nasreddin, who was a judge at that time. Nasreddin thought about this case for a little while. Then he took some money from his pocket. He held the coins next to the restaurant owner’s ear, and shook them, so that they made a jingling noise. "What was that " asked the restaurant owner. "That was payment for you," answered Nasreddin. "What do you mean That was just the sound of coins!" protested the restaurant owner. "The sound of the coins is payment for the smell of the soup," answered Nasre A. Right. B. Wrong. C. Doesn’t say. 我来回答: 提交
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