Reading 3 : Items 22 – 24
An accountant answered an advertisement for a job with a large company. At the end of the interview, the chairman said, “One last question--what is three times seven?” The accountant thought for a minute and replied, “Twenty-two.”
Outside he took his calculator and realized that he should have said twenty-one. He concluded that he had lost the job. Two weeks later, however, he was offered the post.
After a few weeks, he asked the chairman why he had been chosen when he had given the wrong answer.
“You were the closest,” the chairman replied.
Why did the accountant think he wouldn’t get the job?
จากเนื้อเรื่องทำให้ทราบว่าเมื่อประธานบริษัทถามว่า 3 x 7 ได้เท่าไหร่ คำตอบที่ถูกต้องคือ 21 แต่เขาตอบ 22 ทำให้เขาคิดว่าเขานั้นตอบผิด จึงน่าจะไม่ได้งานนั่นเอง
