A、He thought it was cool. B、He needed the practice. C、He wanted to stay connected with them. D、He had an urgent message to send.

M: So, Lenzy, do you like to text-message on your cell phone?
W: Yeah, I text-message a lot.
M: I don’t do it so much. I prefer to make a call if I’m in a hurry.
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.(9)If I call them, I’ll have to have a long conversation.
M: Yeah, I can see what you mean.(8)But I get off the phone pretty quickly when I call. I’m not a big talker.
W: Yeah, that’s true. You don’t talk a lot.
M: So are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?
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?
M: Actually I have the opposite problem.(10)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 gotten slower actually.
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?
M: What?
W: He said he’d never text-message.(11)He thinks it’s very childish and unprofessional to text-message.
M: Yeah, I can see what he means. It’s considered pretty informal to text-message someone.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. What does the man say about himself?
9. What does the woman tend to do while she is on the phone?
10. Why did the man text-message all his friends when he first got his cell phone?
11. What does the woman’s father think of text-messaging?