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HSK 2 listening practice questions
15 HSK 2 listening questions with the answer to each one, in the order the HSK 3.0 paper asks them. They come from the same reviewed bank as the mock exams on this site, and none of them appears on a paper you can sit here, so working through these spends nothing.
Compared with HSK 1, the prescribed vocabulary rises by 200 words to 500, the CEFR band moves from A1 to A2, a writing section is added. On the paper itself, choose the character and write the character appear for the first time.
HSK 3.0 · Listening · 15 questions with answers · free to read, no account
Picture matching
One spoken sentence per item, matched against three pictures.
Three pictures labelled A to C, and one spoken sentence describing what someone is doing.
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桌子上有一杯咖啡。
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外面下雪了。
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她在打篮球。
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我买了一条新裤子。
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他坐地铁去上班。
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Picture matching
Two-person exchanges matched against one shared set of six pictures.
One shared set of six pictures labelled A to F, then a run of short exchanges between two speakers. Each exchange belongs to one picture.
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女：今天上课你懂了吗？男：没有，我也没懂。
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男：你在做什么？女：我在看电视。
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女：喂，你到哪儿了？男：我在路上，快到了。
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男：太晚了，我要睡觉了。女：好，明天见。
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女：这件衣服真漂亮。男：那就买吧。
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Short conversations, then a printed question with three answers.
A short conversation between two speakers, a printed question about it, and three options labelled A to C.
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男：你要买什么？女：我想买一件红色的衣服。
女的想买什么？
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女：你在做什么？男：我在看一本汉语书。
男的在做什么？
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女：你怎么了？男：今天考试没考好。
男的为什么不高兴？
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男：你喜欢什么运动？女：我最喜欢游泳。
女的最喜欢什么运动？
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女：外面还在下雨吗？男：不下了，天晴了。
现在天气怎么样？
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