Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
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 apharmacist (药剂师) who, during the Civil War, led a cavalry troop under General Joe Wheelrer.
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 (糖浆 ) merely by sniffling it.
In 1886--a year in which, as contemporary Coca-Coca 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-Coca. 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 glowing 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 doolop of Cola-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.
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57. What does the passage tell us about John Styth Pemberton?
[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.
58. Which of the following was unique to Frank M. Robinson, working with the Pemberton’s Company?
[A] Skills to make French wine.
[B] Talent for drawing pictures.
[C] An acute sense of smell.
[D] Ability to work with numbers.
59. Why was the year 1886 so special to Pemberton?
[A] Because he took to doing a job like Sherlock Holmes’s.
[B] Because he brought a quite profitable product into being.
[C] Because he observed the founding ceremony of Statue of Liberty.
[D] Because he was awarded by Coca-Cola for his contribution.
60. One modification made of French Wine Coca formula was
[A] used beer bottles were chosen as containers
[B] the amount of caffeine in it was increased
[C] it was blended with oils instead of water
[D] Cola nut extract was added to taste
61. The last paragraph mainly tells __
[A] the complaint against the lazy shop-assistant
[B] a real test of Coca-enla as a headache cure
[C] the mediocre service of the drugstore
[D] a happy accident that gave birth to Coca-Cola
57.A信息明示题。关于John Styth Pemberton，文章第一段指出，创造了可口可乐的人不是亚特兰大当地人，但是在他葬礼的那天，镇上所有的药房都象征性地关门了，可见A是正确的选项。
58.C综合推断题。第二段的后半部分描述了Robinson的特殊之处，他有一个非常特别的鼻子，只是吸吸鼻子就能分辨出一批糖浆的成分，因此选项c正确。
59.B综合推断题。第三段提到，1886年，在那个年代的Coca-coca的领导们都喜欢提到这样一种说法，那就是柯南·道尔创作了福尔摩斯私人侦探，法国创建了自由女神像，Pemberton创造了被他称为Coca—coca的糖浆，因此B正确。
60.D综合推断题。文章第三段第二句提出，这是对他的可卡法国酒的一种改良，他分离出了酒的成分，加入了一小撮咖啡因。结果最后的成品味道口感不佳，于是又加了可乐果汁和一些其他的油脂成分，将混合液倒入放在后院的铁锅中，用浆搅匀。然后他将这种糖浆分放在用过的啤酒瓶里，分发到各饮料店，Robinson则设计了标签，用很时尚的字体写上了可口可乐几个字，直到今天这个字体仍在使用，故选D。文中没有特别说明增加咖啡因的量，因此 B是错误的。
61.D主旨题。题目要求选出最后一段的主旨大意。文章的最后一段讲了一个故事，说的是一位顾客去一家药店看病，药剂师因为偷懒，不想多走几步去打新鲜的水，而是用就在手边的苏打水来调糖浆。这位顾客喝了这种药后很快就振作起来了，于是便传开了，最好的可口可乐是泡沫腾涌的那种，所以选项D是正确的。
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