This part tests whether you follow a short conversation and can answer a question about it. 15 questions — answer format: choose the correct printed option.
You hear a short conversation between a man and a woman, then a question read aloud — 问：…. The options are printed on the paper and you choose the one that answers it.
At the lower levels the conversation is two lines and the question asks for a fact: a time, a place, a number, a person. As the level rises the conversations get longer, and the questions move towards inference — what the man means, what the woman will probably do next, how the speaker feels.
听录音，选出正确的答案。
Listen and choose the correct answer.
5 questions from our practice bank, in the format of the real paper. Try each one before opening the answer.
女：你怎么还不去休息？ 男：这份报告明天上午要交，我再改一遍。 问：男的在做什么？
nǚ ： nǐ zěn me hái bù qù xiū xī ？ nán ： zhè fèn bào gào míng tiān shàng wǔ yào jiāo ， wǒ zài gǎi yī biàn 。 wèn ： nán de zài zuò shén me ？
He is revising a report due tomorrow morning.
D 修改报告
男：听说你换工作了？ 女：是啊，新公司离家近，走路十分钟就到。 问：女的为什么换工作？
nán ： tīng shuō nǐ huàn gōng zuò le ？ nǚ ： shì a ， xīn gōng sī lí jiā jìn ， zǒu lù shí fēn zhōng jiù dào 。 wèn ： nǚ de wèi shén me huàn gōng zuò ？
She changed jobs because the new one is a ten-minute walk away.
D 离家更近
女：这个词我查了词典还是不太明白。 男：你把整个句子读一遍就清楚了。 问：男的建议女的怎么做？
nǚ ： zhè ge cí wǒ chá le cí diǎn hái shì bù tài míng bái 。 nán ： nǐ bǎ zhěng gè jù zi dú yī biàn jiù qīng chǔ le 。 wèn ： nán de jiàn yì nǚ de zěn me zuò ？
He suggests reading the whole sentence.
D 读整个句子
男：明天的车票买到了吗？ 女：只剩下站票了，我打算坐飞机去。 问：女的打算怎么去？
nán ： míng tiān de chē piào mǎi dào le ma ？ nǚ ： zhǐ shèng xià zhàn piào le ， wǒ dǎ suàn zuò fēi jī qù 。 wèn ： nǚ de dǎ suàn zěn me qù ？
Only standing tickets were left, so she will fly.
D 坐飞机
女：你的房间怎么这么干净？ 男：昨天我妈妈来了，帮我收拾了一下午。 问：房间是谁收拾的？
nǚ ： nǐ de fáng jiān zěn me zhè me gān jìng ？ nán ： zuó tiān wǒ mā mā lái le ， bāng wǒ shōu shí le yī xià wǔ 。 wèn ： fáng jiān shì shuí shōu shí de ？
His mother tidied it.
D 男的妈妈
15. It is part 2 of 3 in the HSK 4 Listening section, which has 45 questions and lasts about 30 minutes, for 100 points.
Automatically. Every question has one correct answer and all carry the same weight. A wrong answer costs nothing more than a blank one, so never leave a question empty.
Once. At HSK 4 each recording is played a single time, so read the options before it starts.
No. At HSK 4 the paper is printed in characters only, so you need to recognise the characters themselves.
Three at the lower levels and four from HSK 4 up. Exactly one is correct.
No — only the options are printed. The question is read aloud after the dialogue, so keep listening to the end.
Yes. HSK Test has practice sets for this part, built like the real paper. Create a free account to start; your answers and scores are saved, so you can see how you are improving.
Practise it the way it is set on the day, and see your score straight away.