A、It was exciting. B、It was amusing. C、It was surprising. D、It was quite boring. B

Conversations are really kind of interesting. [16] I guess it’s kind of a hobby of mine to listen to conversations that I can hear in public. It’s amazing how different the style, or the tone or the content of different conversations can be and to listen to the differences in the language that people use when they speak to different people. There’re many interesting places to listen to conversations. One place that I’ve found is on the bus. People often talk to each other as if no one else were there. I guess they think people can’t hear their conversations. Recently I was on a bus, and I was listening to a conversation of two people behind me. I can really say I was listening. I guess it would have been hard not to hear it. [18] It was amusing to listen to the two people, though, because [17] they were playing a kind of word game about states and state capitals. One person would say the name of the state, and the other person would say the name of the capital. It sounds like a kind of simple game that doesn’t involve much language, and you wouldn’t think that it would involve very much conversation, but actually this wasn’t the case. They continued to compliment one another and talk about how much they knew about history and how many of the other things that they could and couldn’t remember about those places from their trips or from their reading. [18] It was really kind of fun to listen to them.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. What is the speaker’s hobby?
17. What were the two people the speaker met on the bus doing?
18. What did the speaker think of the two people’s conversation?