【英語專四聽力周計劃】典型試題自測對話3

W: My brother Mike has just done a course at the Green Park Camping School. M: Really! What made him decide to do that? W: Well, for one thing, some boys in his class decided to do it and they dared him to go with them! M: You mean he didn't really want to go? W: I think he wanted to go, but I think he was also a little frightened. Of course, now that he's done it, he's very pleased with himself and he's always talking about it. M: So he enjoyed it, didn't he? W: Not exactly. I think he's enjoying the feeling of having done it more than he enjoyed actually doing it! M: What sort of things did he do? W: Oh, all sorts of open-air activities: hiking, camping, canoeing. One thing he had to do was to capsize a canoe and then right it again without getting out. He said the water was very cold, but he hardly noticed it at the time. M: Why not? W: He was too busy righting the canoe! M: That doesn't sound very comfortable at this time of the year. W: That's what I said when he told me. On another occasion he had to spend a day and a night by himself in the open country. M: Was he frightened? W: He was at first, apparently, but then he got used to it. M: It seems to me that the course did him a lot of good. I expect it's made him more self-reliant.