[originaltext] Coca-Cola Company, the world famous beverage company, produce

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问题  
Coca-Cola Company, the world famous beverage company, produces and distributes many kinds of soft drinks and non-soda drinks. The company’s soft drinks include its flagship product Coca-Cola (popularly known as Coke), Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta, and Barq’s root beer. And its non-soda beverages include Minute Maid fruit juices, PowerAde sports drinks, and Nestea iced tea drinks.
    Coca-Cola Company can trace its origin to 1886 when John Pemberton, an Atlanta pharmacist created a drink from carbonated water, cane sugar syrup, caffeine, and extracts of kola nuts and coca leaves. The drink was medicinal and refreshing. Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name Coca-Cola. Together, they coined the drink’s first slogan, "Delicious and Refreshing." The Coca-Cola Company was established in 1892. In 1893, Coca-Cola was registered as a patented trademark. In 1894 the first bottled Coke was produced. And by 1895, the drink was sold throughout the United States.
    The year 1977 marked a new era for Coca-Cola Company, it began packaging Coke and other drinks in two-liter plastic bottles. The popularity of these large bottles grew over time, and their sales earned the company new profits.
    Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. was established in the year 1986, and in the next year, it was listed in the prestigious Dow Jones Industrial Averages index of stock market performance. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
    Worldwide, Coca-Cola ranked first in soft drink sales, and the company earned almost 80 percent of its profits from international sales.

选项 A、In 1886.
B、In 1892.
C、In 1893.
D、In 1895.

答案 B

解析 此题为时间题,文中明确提出“the Coca-Cola Company was established in l892”,由此可知B为正确答案。文章中涉及到多个年份,增加了该题的难度。
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