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Cloze 09 Coca Cola

Coca-Cola was created in 1886 when a pharmacist developed a caramel-colored syrup in his backyard. He began distributing the new drink by carrying it around town in a jug for 5 cents per serving. The drink was proclaimed as delicious and refreshing. Whether intentionally or by accident, carbonated water was added to the syrup, creating the drink that became known as Coca-Cola. In the first year, Dr. Pemberton sold 25 gallons of the syrup. Red became the iconic color associated with the Coca-Cola brand. In 1909, the US government accused the company of cocaine use but testing found no traces of the drug in Coca-Cola. The bottle shape, based on a coca bean

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Cloze 09 Coca Cola

Coca-Cola was created in 1886 when a pharmacist developed a caramel-colored syrup in his backyard. He began distributing the new drink by carrying it around town in a jug for 5 cents per serving. The drink was proclaimed as delicious and refreshing. Whether intentionally or by accident, carbonated water was added to the syrup, creating the drink that became known as Coca-Cola. In the first year, Dr. Pemberton sold 25 gallons of the syrup. Red became the iconic color associated with the Coca-Cola brand. In 1909, the US government accused the company of cocaine use but testing found no traces of the drug in Coca-Cola. The bottle shape, based on a coca bean

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Cloze 9 - Coca-Cola

(1) ______ was May 1886 when the pharmacist made caramel-coloured syrup in a
brass kettle in his backyard. He first distributed the new product by carrying Coca
Cola in a jug (2) ______ the street to Jacobs Pharmacy. For five cents, consumer
could enjoy a drink (3) ______ was proclaimed delicious and refreshing. Whether
by design (4) ______ accident carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup,
producing a drink which was finally (5) ______ Coca-Cola, written in a unique
flowing script that is famous worldwide today. In 1886, sales of Coca Cola (6)
______ to nine drinks (7) ______ day, and that first year Dr Pemberton sold 25
gallons of syrup, shipped in bright red wooden barrels. That is (8) ______ red has
been the distinctive colour associated with the soft drink brand ever (9) ______.
In 1909 the US federal government confiscated forty barrels of Coca Cola and
accused the company because the coca ingredient implied the presence of cocaine.
(10) ______, during the trial various appeals continued because none of the evidence
(11) ______ could find traces of cocaine in the form of coca extract (12) ______ cola
for that matter. Witnesses for the company which supplied coca colas ingredients.
(13) ______ how it was made from Coca leaf with its cocaine content removed. The
drink is made from two constituents: extracts from cola leaves and from the coca nut,
and although it is certainly true that the drink initially (14) ______ a form of the drug,
especially when it was advertised as an esteemed brain tonic and intellectual
beverage it contains now.
Many manufacturers (15) ______ that a lot of the success of Coca Cola was (16)
______ to the (17) ______ of the bottle. It identifies the company and makes Coke
easy to advertise. Perhaps the most famous bottle shape of all times is the coca Cola
bottle. The (18) ______ was based on the curve shape of a coca bean found in the
(19) ______ Britannica and finally patented in 1920. The name is a remarkably
successful one as it is a memorable and easily pronounced trade name. It (20) ______
popularity to such an extent that the manufacturers were (21) ______ to register a
second name for it as a pet form, Coke. It first (22) ______.
On bottles in 1941 when the cocaine was eliminated (23) ______ the formula and
when it was free from undesirable or misleading associations. For (24) ______ than
65 years Coca Cola (25) ______ been sponsor of the Olympics; another (26) ______
accomplishment is that it was the first (27) ______ to make use of recycled plastic
(28) ______. One (29) ______ to see all the achievements of the Coca Cola Company
is to (30) ______ the World of Coke in Atlanta.

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