首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Which of the following did the caller have decorated?
Which of the following did the caller have decorated?
admin
2016-01-14
35
问题
Which of the following did the caller have decorated?
M: Hello, this is Mr. Montgomery speaking. I specialize in litigation. I understand you have a problem with a builder. Could you tell me about it?
S: Yes, I hope you can help me. I’ve had my living room decorated, and the painter has made rather a mess of it really. And I don’ t quite know what I should do now. I don’ t know whether to pay him or not.
M: Did he give you a quote?
S: Yes, yes he did. He gave me a quote before he started the work.
M: How much was it for?
S: He said it would be about 500 pounds.
M: Well did he say exactly 500 pounds, or round about 500 pounds, or 500 pounds plus VAT?
S: Er... it was, I think it was 505 pounds plus VAT?
M: What did you instruct him to do?
S: To paint the living room walls, and the ceiling, and to paint the sort of paint-work as well, you know the skirting boards and things like that.
M: And what’s the problem?
S: Well, he’ s made an awful mess of it really. I mean, he had to paint the walls yellow, but he’ s managed to paint them two different shades of yellow, really, so when you walk it, it looks as if one wall is a different color from the other one. He didn’ t mix it well enough so they don’ t match very well. That’ s one thing. Um, and another thing is that the line where the walls meet the ceiling isn’ t straight. So sometimes, the paint goes over onto the ceiling and sometimes it doesn’ t. It looks terrible.
M: So you’ re unhappy with it?
S: I’ m unhappy with it, yes, and he also kept spilling paint all over the carpet because he didn’ t have enough sheets to put down on the floor. So it’ s made rather a mess of the carpet and I don’ t know if I can get that cleaned or not.
M: Have you spoken to him about this?
S: Yes.
M: And what’ s he said?
S: He doesn’ t seem to think there’ s anything wrong with it. He seems to think I’ m being very fussy.
M: Right. Well, your position is this: you are in the strongest position because he wants your money, and you haven’t paid him anything yet. My advice to you is not to pay him anything, to tell him that you’ve taken advice and that you require the walls to be done again in the shade that you want it to be done, that you require him to clean the carpets and that you require him to repaint the ceiling and the wall where they meet such that the line becomes a straight line and not a wavy line. Uh, he may or may not decide to do that. If he says, " No, I’ve done a good job" , then if he’ s in your house and you’ re worried about him being there, I suggest you ask for his invoice. And then, when his invoice comes, you can write to him and you can tell him that you’ re not happy with it, and you’ re not going to pay him.
S: So you don’t think I should pay him anything, then?
M: I don’ t think you should pay him anything because he hasn’ t done what you asked him to do, and he therefore appears to be in breach of contract. But not only that, he appears to have damaged your carpet and you may have to pay somebody to have that carpet cleaned. Of course another possibility is that you could just negotiate a reduction. Get him off your hands and with the difference, employ somebody else to put it right and somebody else to clean the carpet. But you’ d obviously have to have somebody to come in to give you an estimate prior to your negotiations with that builder to agree on a reduction.
S: Right. OK, thank you very much.
选项
A、she is afraid to complain to the painter
B、she has no idea what to do next
C、she intends to contact a lawyer
答案
B
解析
the painter不承认自己工作不合格,the caller感到very fussy,她不知道该怎么做。才来咨询一下。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/hYAK777K
本试题收录于:
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
B类竞赛(英语专业本科专科)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Whatistheprojectmainlyconcernedwith?
要是你不想买风筝,你可以利用当地图书馆的书上可找得到的说明自己做一个。(available)
Inthesummerof1964,well-knownwriterandeditorNormanCousinsbecameveryill.Hisbodyachedandhefeltconstantlytired.
VisitingtheWhiteHouseWhiteHouseToursPublictoursoftheWhiteHouseareavailableforgroupsof10ormorepeopl
Inflationisaneconomicconditioninthatpricesforconsumergoods79.______increase,andthevalueofmoneyorpurchasin
WhatdoestheAssociatedPressaskeditorsandnewsdirectorstodo?
Whichtwowordsstartingwith"P"and"0"containthemostletters?
直到失去健康,人们才意识到健康的可贵。(It’snotuntil...that…)
Lackofculture,orratheranexcessofthewrongsortofculture,isoftenconsideredtobesynonymouswithdisadvantage.Most
Alaskaisdisappearingslowlybutsurely.Sincethe1950s,itisestimatedthatasmuchas15percentofAlaska’sareahasdisap
随机试题
X线管外壳材料应具备的条件不包括
A、足太阳膀胱经B、足阳明胃经C、足少阳胆经D、手少阳三焦经E、手太阳小肠经从耳后,入耳中,至目外眦之下的经脉是
某患者葡萄胎刮宫术后4个月,血HCG明显高于正常,胸部X线片显示片状阴影,最可能的诊断是
下列选项中,可作为原始凭证调整账簿记录的有()。
一批零件,由甲单独制作需要12天,甲乙两人合作则只需要8天。如果这批零件由乙单独制作,则需要()天。
对我国公安机关的专政职能理解正确的有()。
A、 B、 C、 D、 B
《每周新闻》
对于模板定义关键字class和typename说法不正确的是
Theactthatthespeakerorwriteruseslinguisticformstoenablealistenerorreadertoidentifysomethingiscalled
最新回复
(
0
)