SAT II Listening

Sample Listening Questions

	All questions in the test are multiple-choice. You must choose the best response from the three or four choices offered for each question.
	When the test is administered, all spoken Chinese will be presented by tape playback. All text appearing here in square brackets [] is spoken.

	Section I Part A

	[Directions: In this part of the test you will hear short questions, statements, or commands in Mandarin Chinese, followed by three responses in Mandarin Chinese, designated (A), (B) and (C). You will hear the statements or questions, as well as the responses, just one time and they are not printed in your test booklet. Therefore you must listen very carefully. Select The best response and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer sheet. Now listen to the following examples.]

	Part B

	[Directions: You will now hear a series of short selections. You will hear them only once and they not printed in your test booklet. After each selection, you will be asked one or more questions about what you have just heard. These questions, with four possible answers, are printed in your test booklet. Select the best answer to each question from among the four choices given and fill in the corresponding oval on your answer sheet. You will have 15 seconds to answer each question. Now listen to the following examples:]

Question 6. Listen to find out where the people are:

Now answer question 6.

6. Where does this conversation take place?

a. Inside the Li home.	b. At Mr. Li's office.
c. On the street.	d. At a park.

Question 7-8. Listen to find out what the woman will do next summer.

Now answer question 7 and 8

7. Where will the woman spend the summer next year?

a. In China.	b. In Japan.
c. In Hong Kong.	d. In the United States.

8. What will the woman do?

a. Visit friends.	b. Go to school.
c. Look for a job.	d. Travel abroad.

Question 9. Listen to find out who the speaker is.

Now answer question 9.

9. Who is the speaker?

a. A butcher	b. A waiter.
c. A casher.	d. A customer.

Question 10. Listen to find out what the tour guide is telling the group of tourists.

Now answer question 10.

10. What will the tourists most likely do after the announcement?

a. Claim their luggage.	b. Go shopping
c. Call a taxi.	d. Leave the art museum.