M: After high school, I’ d like to go to college and major in business administration.
W: But I’ d rather spend my college days finding out how children learn.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
Question 2
W: Is everything ready for the conference?
M: The only thing left to do is set up the microphones and speakers. They’ll be here in a few minutes.
Q: What preparations have yet to be made?
Question 3
W: Is it almost time to go home now? I’m so tired. I can hardly see straight.
M: Just a few more minutes, then we can go.
Q: What is the woman’ s problem?
Question 4
W: I’m not sure what I’ m in a mood for. Ice-cream or sandwiches? They are both really good here.
M: The movie starts in an hour. And we still have to get there and park. So just make a decision.
Q: What does the man mean?
Question 5
W: Tom said he would come to repair our solar heater when he has time.
M: He often says he is willing to help, but he never seems to have time.
Q: What does the man imply about Tom?
Question 6
W: So you know that Sam turns down the job offered by the travel agency.
M: Yes. The hours were convenient. But if he had accepted it, he wouldn’ t be able to make ends meet.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
Question 7
M: Could you tell me a bit about the business your company is doing?
W: We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.
Q: What business is the woman’ s company doing?
Question 8
W: Yesterday I made reservations for my trip to Miami next month.
M: You must really be looking forward to it. You haven’ t had any time off for at least two years.
Q: What is the woman going to do?
[Answer]
1.D The woman is going to major in child education.
2.B The sound equipment has to be set up.
3.A She is exhausted.
4.C The woman should order her food quickly.
5. B He doesn’ t keep his promises.
6.C The pay offer by the travel agency is too low.
7.A International trade.
8.D Take a vacation.
[opinion]
No matter from the conversation content or the topic itself, the overall difficulty of this CET-4 short dialogue is relatively simple, which is similar to that of previous years. The topics cover daily life (trivial things in life, watching movies, traveling, etc.), campus life and business work (meetings, job hunting, etc.). For example, conversations 2, 6 and 7 all involve business work topics; Conversations 3, 4, 5 and 8 all involve daily life topics; Dialogue 1 is the topic of campus life. It mainly examines factual details and reasoning judgments. Among them, the factual details account for a relatively large proportion, which is beneficial to the majority of candidates. The main difficult words are solar heater, travel agency, make ends meet, make reservations for reservation, what I’m in a mood for what I want to eat, etc. Understanding the difficult words is of great benefit to the whole listening content, so candidates should accumulate more words and common expressions at ordinary times.