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HSK 3 listening practice questions
17 HSK 3 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 2, the prescribed vocabulary more than doubles, from 500 words to 1,000. On the paper itself, write a sentence appears for the first time, choose the character drops out, the writing minimum rises from 100 characters to 200.
HSK 3.0 · Listening · 17 questions with answers · free to read, no account
Picture matching
Two-person conversations matched against one shared set of six pictures.
One shared set of six pictures labelled A to F, then a run of short conversations between two speakers. Each conversation belongs to one picture.
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男：喂，请问张经理在吗？女：他正在开会，您半个小时以后再打，好吗？
Listen and choose the picture that matches the dialogue.
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女：你的雨伞忘在公司了。男：没关系，我明天去拿。
Listen and choose the picture that matches the dialogue.
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男：你怎么了，看起来不太舒服？女：我有点儿发烧，想去医院看看。
Listen and choose the matching picture.
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女：你每天下午都去打篮球吗？男：对，运动让我很开心。
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男：这家饭馆的菜真不错。女：是啊，下次我们还来这儿吃。
Listen and choose the matching picture.
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女：图书馆里这么安静，我很喜欢在这儿看书。男：我也是。
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男：我们快点儿，飞机马上就要起飞了。女：别着急，还有时间。
Listen and choose the matching picture.
answerMultiple choice
Conversations between two speakers, then a printed question with three answers.
A conversation between two speakers, a printed question about it, and three options labelled A to C.
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女：你最近在忙什么？男：我奶奶住院了，我每天一下班就去医院照顾她。
男的的奶奶怎么了？
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男：这个周末你有什么打算？女：我打算去图书馆看书。
女的周末打算做什么？
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男：你的箱子这么大，里面都是什么？女：都是给家人的礼物。
箱子里是什么？
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女：这个周末天气怎么样？男：新闻里说星期六刮风，星期天是晴天。
星期六天气怎么样？
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女：都七点了，你怎么还在办公室？男：经理让我把这个工作做完。
男的为什么还在办公室？
Multiple choice
A single speaker talking, then a printed question with three answers.
One speaker talking for a few sentences with no second voice, a printed question, and three options labelled A to C.
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这里的夏天没那么热，春天和秋天很凉快，冬天也不太冷，一年四季都很舒服。
那里秋季的天气怎么样？
小李下班以后做什么？
大家下班以后做什么了？
妹妹放学回家先做什么？
关于那家书店，可以知道什么？
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