A、Inviting her friends to a gathering. B、Staying at home with her parents. C、Relaxing at the seashore. D、Working on her paper. C

M: Hey, Linda. Looks like you got some sun this weekend.
W: Yeah, I guess so. [9] I spent the weekend at the beach.
M: Oh, yeah? That’s great! Where did you stay?
W: Some friends of my parents live out there. And they invited me for as long as I wanted to stay.
M: So, what are you doing back here already?
W: [10] Oh, I have a paper I need to work on. And I just couldn’t do any serious studying at the beach.
M: I don’t blame it. So, what did you do out there? I mean, besides lay out in the sun, obviously.
W: I jogged up and down the beach and I played some volleyball. You know, [11] I never realize how hard it is to run on sand. I couldn’t even get through a whole game before I had to sit down. It’s much easier to run on the wet sand near the water.
M: Not to mention cooler. Did you go swimming?
W: I wanted to, [12] but they said the water isn’t warm enough for that until a couple of months from now. So I just waded in up to my knees.
M: It all sounds so relaxing. I wish I could get away to the beach like that.
W: It looks like you could use it. Don’t tell me you spent the weekend in the library again.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. How did the woman spend the weekend?
10. What does the woman have to do after she comes back?
11. Why did the woman have to stop playing in the volleyball game?
12. Why didn’t the woman go swimming?