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You will hear a conversation between the company accountant and her boss about the embezzling of the company’s money by another
You will hear a conversation between the company accountant and her boss about the embezzling of the company’s money by another
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2013-01-18
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问题
You will hear a conversation between the company accountant and her boss about the embezzling of the company’s money by another accountant.
Choose the correct ending for each of the sentences (23—30).
Mark one letter (A,B or C) for the ending you choose.
Keith: Good morning. Mr. Bristow. I hope you don’t mind me interrupting you. As I have something really important to talk to you about, could you possibly spare me a few minutes?
Bristow: Hi! Keith. Do you think we can talk about it some other time, or say, this afternoon? I’m busy preparing a report right now.
Keith: Well, it is rather urgent, and I feel that I must let you know it as soon as possible.
Bristow: I see. It may be better to deal with It now, then. I may not have time after lunch. I’m going out with a customer and I might have to go on to his factory and not be back till late. Let’s have it, then. What’s the problem?
Keith: Well, where to start... You know I’ve not been here very long, Mr. Bristow, so I may be making a fool of myself. But I must do my job, musn’t I? Therefore. I must point out where it seems to me it has gone wrong as it is. We can never deny the fact that accountants can make mistakes. I know, like anyone else. But when a mistake is much too big, you simply get confused as to whether it was made purely unintentionally or for a clearly defined purpose.
Bristow: Hmm... That’s absolutely right. All right, Keith, now I’ve realized that what you’re going to tell me is something very serious. Don’t beat about the bush. Simply get to the point. I’d love to hear about it right away.
Keith: It’s this, Mr. Bristow. I’ve been checking through the accounts over the past two years and I’ve reason to believe that someone may have been embezzling the firm’s money. I can’t prove the case yet in detail but I think there’s enough evidence for you to look into it.
Bristow: That’s a very serious charge. But go on.
Keith: What drew my attention to it was that Mr. Hammond, the Works Manager, was complaining the other day that he could never get hold of enough spare parts. As you know Mr. Cross, the Purchasing Manager, has been off sick all this week, so Mr. Hammond asked me to check on the stocks on what had been ordered. And I did it as I was told.
Bristow: Quite right. Yes. What have you found out?
Keith: I found we’ve been ordering far more spare parts than we need for a long time. When I showed Mr. Hammond the figure, he couldn’t believe his eyes. He said we couldn’t have been using such large quantities, and what’s more, we’ve been paying well over the market price for them. I checked over the last eighteen months and was able to discover what had been going on. The extra orders and higher prices were only for items we’d ordered from Holder and Bragg. But of course they’re our main suppliers. I thought I might have made a mistake but Mr. Hammond couldn’t understand it. He said you might be able to throw light on it.
Bristow: Can I see the figures? Hmm. Yes, there’s no doubt the orders seem excessive. Let’s take gear wheels as an example. We can’t have been paying that much for them. Of course Cross may have over-ordered when he first came here two years ago, just to be on the safe side, but he can’t have gone on doing that every month.
Keith: And even then it doesn’t explain the shortage, does it, Mr. Bristow? There are very few of these items in the store. Perhaps there is a logical explanation, but I really cannot figure it out.
Bristow: There may be, but I can’t think of one. I can hardly believe it of Cross. But can there be any other explanation, apart from the obvious one? And now that I think of it, someone said Cross was doing some part-time work as a consultant to a spare parts firm.
Keith: It may sound a bit presumptuous of me, Mr. Bristow, but what I still can’t understand is how my predecessor, Mr. Lawton, didn’t spot it. If he had been any good as an accountant, surely he would have realized that the figures were strange.
Bristow: That’s the piece I needed to fit the puzzle together. Lawton is Cross’s brother-in-law. In fact he recommended Cross to us. He must have been part of the swindle. Cross couldn’t have got away with it, otherwise.
Keith: I know Mr. Cross has been in poor health recently.
Bristow: He may be ill, but that doesn’t justify any of this. How long’s he been off sick?
Keith: Since the beginning of the week. His secretary said he might be back tomorrow.
Bristow: Hmm. Well if you’re right, as I think you are, he’ll feel a lot sicker when we get to the bottom of this affair. Well done, anyway. Cross may be back tomorrow. That’ll be all for the moment. I’ll have a call through to Hemming and Wood, the Company lawyers.
Keith: What would you suggest I do for the time being?
Bristow: Well go on checking the figures and our present stocks. I don’t want to wrong anyone for any unjustified reason. But if things are just like that, I’m sure I know what to do. As the saying goes: Justice has long arms. No one can expect to escape without being punished. Thank you Keith, for your most devoted work.
Keith: My pleasure, Mr. Bristow. I’m just doing my job.
Bristow: Oh, one more thing.
选项
A、are brothers-in-law
B、have collaborated in a under-the-table deal
C、couldn’t have got away with it
答案
B
解析
老板知道,Lawton是Cross的姐夫,是他介绍Cross进入公司的,他“must have beenpart of the swindle; Cross couldn’t have gotaway with it”。因此,他们很可能联合在暗中做手脚。
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