典型试题自测对话3-英语听力

[00:01.327] W: My brother Mike has just done a course at the Green Park Camping School. [00:06.149] M: Really! What made him decide to do that? [00:09.105] W: Well, for one thing, some boys in his class decided to do it and they dared him to go with them! [00:16.321] M: You mean he didn't really want to go? [00:19.515] W: I think he wanted to go, but I think he was also a little frightened. [00:24.032] Of course, now that he's done it, he's very pleased with himself and he's always talking about it. [00:30.686] M: So he enjoyed it, didn't he? [00:32.817] W: Not exactly. I think he's enjoying the feeling of having done it more than he enjoyed actually doing it! [00:40.500] M: What sort of things did he do? [00:42.432] 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. [00:54.831] He said the water was very cold, but he hardly noticed it at the time. [00:59.574] M: Why not? [01:00.952] W: He was too busy righting the canoe! [01:03.493] M: That doesn't sound very comfortable at this time of the year. [01:07.034] 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. [01:15.449] M: Was he frightened? [01:16.419] W: He was at first, apparently, but then he got used to it. [01:20.332] M: It seems to me that the course did him a lot of good. I expect it's made him more self-reliant.