Another common HSK question involves listening to a dialogue between two people. As before, you must select the most appropriate answer given the question asked about the dialogue.
henning
said on September 10, 2008
Small issue with the UI here: The result page was not readable [Internet Explorer] (the sad "11/15" was cut off at about 20% of the top).
henning
said on September 10, 2008
Actually this one was mean: "今天是星期几？"
I would have problems doing that in German let alone Chinese. Definately need an upgrade for my short term memory. Just don't know where to insert that SD-card into my brain.
trevelyan
said on September 10, 2008
Yup. The test materials are being written by colleagues at IUP and BLCU. So this actually *does* reflect on the kind of question they'll throw at you at the upper levels.
The advanced listening comprehension can be even more cruel. We haven't put any of these up yet, but they are coming.... (insert cruel laugh)
On the other hand, giving the Chinese focus on standardized testing with the 高考 and then TEM series, it's not surprising their own language tests include some analytic questions as well.
trevelyan
said on September 10, 2008
Will look into the IE formatting problem too. thx Henning.
derek
said on September 10, 2008
Great lesson, can't wait for the advanced suffering. IE formatting is OK now.
imron
said on September 10, 2008
Am I missing something in question 7, 女的买了几斤苹果? The test said the correct answer was 两斤，however by my reckoning it should be 四斤:
女：我要两斤苹果
男：两斤苹果五块钱
女：真便宜，那我再来两斤吧
男：一共十块钱
两斤 plus another 两斤 should surely be 四斤?
Plus if 两斤 costs 五块钱, then if the total comes to 十块钱 then she should have bought 四斤?
HSK Intermediate
said on September 11, 2008
Yes. The correct answer is most certainly #4. Corrected with thanks.
henning
said on September 11, 2008
Haha. That raises my score to 12/15. And I thought I missed something here.
:)
By the way: Is the complete audio-file close to the real HSK setting regarding the time intervals between the different sentences? The task density increases the stress factor considerably...
Echo
said on September 11, 2008
@henning,
That's a good score. The speed is very close, although there's a bit less space between questions.
You are suppose to complete 50 questions in about 35 minutes for the HSK. There are three parts in the listening section, and today's quiz belongs to the second part. The third part has five long listening essays, so takes more time. So it's close.
--Echo
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weijin
said on October 6, 2008
真的考HSK时能不能听两遍？第十二题，我蒙对了，但我听了五遍还是不知道男的在说什么！
Echo
said on October 6, 2008
@weijin,
只能听一遍:(
男的说:"八字还没一撇呢!"——你猜猜是什么意思吧？：）
--Echo
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weijin
said on October 7, 2008
是不是“还很远，我们还没决定”？
marco64
said on October 7, 2008
hi weijin - the first stroke in the character 八 goes downwards and to the left and is called a 撇. :)
weijin
said on October 7, 2008
oh right, that's clever. Another "it's so obvious, how did I not see it before" moment.
Echo
said on October 7, 2008
@weijin,
To make it clearer, it means 还差得远呢！
--Echo
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brshill
said on December 11, 2010
怎么说呢，我在两个等级中卡住了。中级太容易，高级太难，怎么办呀!
Echo
said on December 12, 2010
@brshill,
我建议你多做一些高级的，错了没关系，把错题反复做几遍，过一段时间会有很大进步的。
--Echo
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