TOEFL · Section 3
TOEFL Conversation 11
Oh hi, Marlon. I didn't hear you come in. Shower's too loud? Boy, you sure take long ones.
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- Oh hi, Marlon. I didn't hear you come in.
- Shower's too loud? Boy, you sure take long ones.
- Doesn't your mother complain?
- Every time. She says I double the water bill.
- I can believe it.
- But a shower doesn't use nearly as much water as taking a bath does.
- 'Course, you wouldn't know- you don't use either one.
- Haw! You'd know if I didn't.
- You wouldn't be able to breathe in here right now.
- What's the occasion?
- It's Rush Week, my man.
- I've got a fraternity to check out tonight. Omega Theta.
- Omega Theta? Really?
- They rushed you?
- That's a feather in your cap. Everybody says they're really cool.
- Yeah, they are. But they've also got a good reputation for academics, too.
- They've got the highest GPA on Fraternity Row.
- Hmm, that means you're gonna have to keep up your average, too.
- Yeah, but I figure that'll be easier to do with a little help from some Omega Theta friends.
- You've got friends there?
- I will if I join.
- They've got a pretty strict study regimen:
- everyone gets assigned a tutor, an upper-class brother, kind of an academic buddy system.
- They say it works good.
- Sounds good if you need that.
- And I do. I'm not a self-starter at all.
- Left to myself, I tend to fiddle around and get nothing done.
- Me too, I guess,
- if I go to the library or the coffee shop to study, I do better,
- but if I sit around here, I just dawdle.
- I listen to music or pick at the guitar or, uh, anything to avoid getting down to my assignments.
- That's why I think Omega Theta is a good idea.
- But what about the really important stuff?
- Huh? What's that?
- Their parties!
- They don't have much of a rep as a party house.
- No, they don't.
- Well? Isn't that the main reason for joining a fraternity - to party and meet girls?
- Haha, for some guys, I guess so, yes.
- I like to party too, but not every weekend like the Delta Taus do.
- Now, that's a real animal house, talk about reputation!
- Yeah, probably a little much for me, too, when I think about it.
- We gotta stay a bit serious, after all, we gotta find jobs when we leave here!
- Anyway, Omega Theta does throw a good party or two along the way,
- just before Christmas and Easter break, and at Halloween, of course.
- Oh boy! I hope you'll invite me to that one! I love Halloween parties!
- Sure, if I can, but I haven't been invited to join yet.
- Oh yeah, I forgot.
- Well, I want to hear how it goes tonight.
- You bet. Reception's at six-thirty, dinner's at seven.
- There'll be some talking and a tour of the house and some one-on-one.
- No alcohol, I think.
- So I should be back here by 9:30 or 10 at the latest.
- Then I'll spill all.
- Hey! I just thought of something!
- If you join Omega Theta and move into their house,
- what am I gonna do for a roommate?
- No, no, you're stuck with me for a while yet in any case.
- They don't have freshman residents, just upper classmen, and not a lot of those.
- It's not a big house.
- How many are staying there anyway?
- I don't know, about a dozen or so, I think.
- I think they've got five or six bedrooms.
- Everybody else is in the dorms or off campus.
- But they've got a big hall that'll hold thirty or forty brothers for meetings and cram sessions and things.
- Huh! Well, I don't want to hold you up. It's almost six o'clock now.
- What? Yipes! I gotta get dressed and get outta here!
- I'll leave you to it.
- I'm going over to the Campus Club and see if there's a good movie on.
- Don't you have anything better to do?
- Naw. No one's rushing me tonight.
- Maybe it's the garlic I ate at lunch.
- Couldn't be your personality, could it?
- Thanks. You're my pal, too. Lock the door when you leave, will you?
- Yep. See you about 10?
- If the movie's over. If there is one.
- Otherwise, I'll just be hanging out back here.
- OK. See you later.
- See you. Have fun!