『新东方在线托福口语』为托福考生准备了ETS托福TPO/Official 44 Task 3口语练习：Scope Creep &nbsp;
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旁白：现在听一节商务课上的部分内容。

Narrator: Now listen to part of a lecture in a business class.

我有一个朋友，他拥有一家做施工的公司。

I have a friend who owns a company that does construction.

他的公司经常被雇来改造某人的房子或院子。

His company is often hired to make improvements to someone's house or yard.

最近有个女人雇他在她的院子周围筑起一道篱笆。

So recently this woman hired him to build a fence around her yard.

她说她想要一个木制的篱笆将她的后院围住。

She said she wanted a wooden fence running all the way around her backyard.

她和我的朋友很快就确定了这份工作的价格。

She and my friend quickly settled on a price for the job.

他们基本上只是口头上约定了工作内容，并没有写任何协议。

They basically just made a verbal agreement about the work that would be done without putting any of the agreement in writing.

And so my friend got to work building the fence.

当我的朋友几乎快要在她的后院里完成搭建这些篱笆时，

So when my friend was almost finished building the fence around the woman's yard,

那个女人告诉我的朋友，她想把栅栏漆成白色。

the woman told my friend that she wanted the fence painted white.

因为他不认为他是被雇来粉刷篱笆的。

because he did not think that he had been hired to also paint the fence.

他告诉那个女人，他只是来建篱笆的，而不是来粉刷的，

He told the woman this that he'd just been hired to build the fence, not paint it,

但女人说，当她雇佣他来建造篱笆时，她认为这也意味着它会被粉刷。

but the woman said she thought when she hired him to build the fence that this also meant the fence would be painted.

最后，我的朋友最终同意在不收取额外费用的情况下粉刷栅栏。

and eventually my friend finally agreed to paint the fence without charging extra just to be nice.

Scope Creep &nbsp;
Businesses that perform services or carry out projects for clients generally come to an agreement with their clients about the extent or scope of a project before beginning the project. However, as a project progresses, clients may ask for more than the business originally expected to provide, and the scope of the project may grow larger than intended. This phenomenon is known as scope creep, and it can cause conflict between businesses and their clients. Scope creep is especially common when the terms or conditions of the initial agreement are not clearly defined, and a client may expect more than the business had planned to provide.&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
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 Explain how the example in the lecture illustrates the concept of scope creep.
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