Two estimates
Mrs green was the manager of a large company. And she frequently had to have meetings with other business people in a room in her building. She did not smoke at all, but many of the other people at the meetings did, so she often found the air during the meetings terrible. One day, after an hour, her throat and eyes were sore and she was coughing a lot, so she called a big air-conditioning company and asked them to work out how much it would cost to keep the air of the meeting room in her building really clean.
After a few days the air-conditioning company sent in two estimates for Mrs Green to choose from. One estimate was for$5,00 for a sign which said, NO SMOKING.
两份预算单
格林夫人是一家大公司的经理，她经常在公司里与其他生意人一起开会。她从不抽烟，但在会上其他人却经常吸烟，因此，开会时房间的空气简直糟透了。一天，会议进行了一个小时之后，她的喉咙和眼睛便开始发痛，接着就不停地咳嗽。于是，她只好找来了一家大型空调公司。清他们告诉她要花多少钱财可以使公司会议室里的空气保持清新。
几天后，这家空调公司给格林夫人寄来了两份预算单。一份预算是花5000美元安装新的空调设备。另一份预算单则建议挂一块写着“禁止吸烟”的牌子，5美元。
以上英语故事由成人英语培训部提供。
