Select the Letter of the Correct Answer for Each of the Following

question 36

Multiple Choice

Select the letter of the correct answer for each of the following questions. Check the following paragraph for unity. Then, select the number of the sentence that does not belong in the paragraph.
(1) The first batch of one of the world's most popular soft drinks was mixed in a backyard kettle over a hundred years ago. (2) On May 6, 1886, Dr. John Styth Pemberton heated a mixture of melted sugar, water, coca leaves, kola nuts, and other ingredients. (3) He planned to make one of the home-brewed medical syrups so popular at that time. (4) However, this one tasted so good that Dr. Pemberton decided to sell it as a soda fountain drink for five cents a glass. (5) The first glass of this new drink was sold at Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. (6) Atlanta was and still is a wonderful place to live. (7) Pemberton's tasty invention, Coca-Cola, caught on. (8) Today, Coca-Cola is consumed by 140,000 people every minute.

• A) Sentence 2
• B) Sentence 4
• C) Sentence 6

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Definitions:

Chunking

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Atkinson-Shiffrin Theory

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