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M: So, Lyndsay, do you like to text message on your cell phone?
男士：林賽，你喜歡用手機發短信嗎？
W: Yeah, I text message a lot.
女士：喜歡啊，我經常發。
M: I don't do it so much. I prefer to make a call if I'm in a hurry.
男士：我不是很喜歡。如果有急事我更喜歡打電話。
W: Yeah, I go both ways. Sometimes I don't really want to talk to the person. I just want to ask them one question, so it's much easier for me just to text message. If I call them, I'll have to have a long conversation.
女士：嗯，我兩個都用。有時候我真的很不想和人說話。如果我只是想問一個問題，那發短信就簡單多了。但是如果打電話，就得進行一次很長的對話。
M: Yeah, I can see what you mean. But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call. I'm not a big talker.
男士：是的，我明白你的意思。但是我和別人打電話用的時間很短。我不是愛聊天的人。
W: Yeah, that's true. You don't talk a lot.
女士：你的確不太愛說話。
M: So are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?
男士：那你發短信時打字快嗎？
W: Well, when I first got a cell phone, I was so slow. I thought I would never text message. But then people kept text messaging me, so I felt obliged to learn how to text message. So now I'm pretty fast. What about you?
女士：啊，我剛用手機時，打字很慢。我想我永遠都不會發短信。但是人們不斷地給我發短信，弄得我不得不學。因此現在我打字很快了。你呢？
M: Actually I have the opposite problem. When I first got my cell phone, I thought it was so cool to text message all my friends who have one, and I was pretty fast with my thumb then. But it seems like now I don't use it so much, I've got slower actually.
男士：其實我剛好和你相反。我剛買手機的時候，給所有有手機的朋友都發短信，當時覺得那是一件很酷的事，所以那時候我的手很麻利。但是現在我不太發短信了，所以似乎也生疏了許多。
W: Yeah, I think text messaging actually sort of has to do with your age. For example, people in high school, they text message a lot. But I ask my father if he text messages, and guess what he said?
女士：是的，我覺得是否喜歡發短信和年齡也有一定的關系。比如，高中生很愛發短信。但是我問我的父親他是否發短信，你猜他怎么說？
M: What?
男士：怎么說？
W: He said he never text messaged. He thinks it's very childish and unprofessional to text message.
女士：他說他從來沒有發過。他說發短信很幼稚，而且很不專業。
M: Yeah, I can see what he means. It's considered pretty informal to text message someone.
男士：嗯，我能理解他。給別人發短信的確感覺很不正式。
8.What does the man say about himself?
關于自己男士說了什么？
9. What does the woman tend to do while she is on the phone?
女士打電話時通常會怎樣？
10. Why did the man text message all his friends when he first got his cell phone?
男士剛買手機時為什么給他所有的朋友發短信？
11.What does the Woman's father think of text messaging?
女士的父親對發短信有什么看法？
