Вариант 4

I. Установите соответствие между заголовками А —H c текстами 1- 7. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу. Используйте каждую букву только один раз. В задания один заголовок лишний.

A. Diet Соке

B. Future of the drink

C. Development of the business

D. History

E. General Motors Company

F. General information

G. The priority of «quality» papers

H. The more popular newspapers

1. Coca-Cola is enjoyed all over the world. «Coca-Cola» and «coke» are registered trade marks which identify the same product of The Coca-Cola Company. About 2 billion gallons are sold every year, in over one hundred and sixty countries.

2. The drink was invented by Dr John Pemberton in Atlanta on 8 May 1886, but it was given the name Coca-Cola by his partner, Frank Robinson. In the first year, only nine drinks a day were sold.

3. The business was bought by a man called Asa Candler in 1888, and the first factory was opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1895. Coca-Cola is still made there. Billion of bottles and cans have been produced since 1895.

4. Diet Coke has been made since 1982, and over the years many clever ads have been used to sell the product.

5. The fight for the market makes it difficult for customers to choose between Coca-Cola and Pepsi nowadays, but it is certain that Coca-CoIa will be drunk far into the twenty-first century.

6. The “quality” papers contain political, industrial and cultural news and devote pages to finance matters and international news. They have an undramatic layout with lengthy articles. The Daily Telegraph, with its circulation of over a million copies, sells more than twice as many copies as any of the other broadsheets.

7. Today popular papers are largely tabloid, half the size of a broadsheet. The tabloids “compress” the news and are printed on ill sheets of paper. They contain sensational stories and aim to excite the reader visually, using techniques such as very large headlines and photographs.