In this listening exercise you will hear someone make a statement in Chinese. Your challenge is to pick the most suitable answer from the four options given.If you listen very carefully, you can occasionally hear the sounds of someone suppressing laughter in the background. This is because our recording team kept falling into laughter recording this. Some of the possible answers are not only wrong, they are daft. And also fun. So good luck, and enjoy!
toneandcolor
said on January 7, 2009
Great lesson. I think context-based exercises like this are very useful. Perhaps there's a way to toggle the answers off so you only see a-d? It's so tempting to read as the audio is playing... The audio buttons on the actual quiz don't seem to be working for me by the way (Firefox 2.0.0.15).
veritas21
said on January 7, 2009
Yaah, these are pretty easy. I liked the answer 快吃吧 for the question on expired drugs. Could actually picture someone saying that too.
Echo
said on January 7, 2009
Honestly, we stopped several times when we recorded this test. Many questions are far too funny...
--Echo
echo@popupchinese.com
gnotella100
said on January 8, 2009
Sounded like that guy was from the loony bin.
Frank
said on January 9, 2009
I've tried a few times now, but nothing happens when I click the play arrow. No sound at all. I can hear the podcasts, but not these. Any idea why that might be?
trevelyan
said on January 9, 2009
I'll look into it. Can you let us know what browser you're using?In the meantime, you can get the full audio from the podcast (mp3) and just pause between questions if you need to. Its best to do it that way anyway, since the questions are read that fast in the actual exam.
Frank
said on January 9, 2009
I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 on a MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.6.
Hope that helps!
victsur
said on June 22, 2010
Where I can find the transcript of A QUESTION? Usually transcripts include not only answer options and correct and key to answers, but also a question or statement itself. That would be very useful to pick up new words by listening and then by looking at them.
Thank you,
Victsur
trevelyan
said on June 23, 2010
@victsur,
The questions on these listening exercises aren't written down. Hopefully we'll be able to add support for this in the next iteration of the site. In the meantime, if you have trouble understanding any particular question, the best thing to do is probably ask in the comment section. We'll be more than glad to transcribe whichever ones you have difficulty with for you.
Best,
--david
