I went on line to check if my pay was in my bank account. To my amazement I disc

I went on line to check if my pay was in mybank account（账户）.To my amazement I discovered that not only had I been paid, but a company I’dnever worked for had also paid me! I know I would have been beside myself (情绪失控) if my own salary was notin my account, so I tried to get the money back to the right person. Easiersaid than done.

The bank couldn’t help as it “wasn’t a bankproblem.” The human-resource department at the company that paid me was unableto help as I didn’t have enough details. I rang the bank again. Thankfully Ihad a sympathetic call operator who gave me a name, so I again rang the company“Daniel” worked for.

I expected the bank would contact me toarrange to take the money from my account and repay Daniel. I heard nothing fora month and the money remained in my account when Daniel called, explaininghe’d tried to get back his money but had been unsuccessful as neither the banknor his company felt it was their error. He had rung to ask if I could speak tothe bank, but after chatting for a few minutes we realized we could probablyfix this problem ourselves.

We decided I would take the money from myaccount and he would pick it up from me. Due to my busy job I was unable tomeet Daniel personally but he left me a lovely bottle of wine in exchange forwhat was rightfully his. I never had any intention of keeping Daniel’s pay butred tape（繁琐手续）madeit difficult to do the right thing. It all came down to two people being ableto do what a huge bank and a large company couldn’t do — admit a mistake hasoccurred and fix it.

1.What was the attitude of the authortowards the extra money in his bank account?

2. How was the problem solved in the end?

3.From the passage we can infer that_________.

试题答案

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.B

【解析】略