例3：A. In a store. B. In a hospital. C. In a restaurant.
解题思路：由选项可预测出此题为推断对话发生的背景或询问地点。要选出正确答案，应从说话者的语气、用词和内容来判断。因为在商店、医院、银行等公共场所，谈话时往往有较为固定的expressions（表达）,这些往往也是确定对话背景和说话双方关系的关键词。
听力录音原文及答案：
Woman: Can I help you?
Man: I want to buy a bike.
Woman: OK. This way, please.
Question: Where does the conversation take place?(A)[2002年济南市]
例4： A. To buy a radio. B. To buy some books on radio. C. To buy a shelf.
解题思路：由所给选项可预测谈话双方讨论买东西。但买还是不买，还需要我们理解说话者的意图、观点和态度。
听力录音原文及答案：
Woman: Do you have any books on radio, sir?
Man: They are over there on that shelf.
Woman: Are they expensive?
Man: No, they are not expensive at all.
Woman: Oh, that's good.
Question: What's the woman going to do? (B)[2003年新疆生产建设兵团]
特别提示：由最后一句我们可以得出woman speaker 想买 books on radio.
五、注意事项归纳
在听简短对话的时候，笔者提醒大家注意以下几点：
1.注意“男女”。简短对话多由男女两人来完成，听力测试中常有像“What does the man mean?”、“What is the woman going to do?”等问题。这要求大家在听懂对话内容的同时，还要听清问题主旨。如：
例5：A. red B. GREen C. white
听力录音原文及答案：
Man: I like GREen better than red. What about you, Mary?
Woman: I don't like GREen at all. I like white best.
Question: Which colour does the man like better?(B)
特别提示：问题是问man，而不是问woman，使不少考生过后大呼“上当”。
2.学会推理、运算。在听力测试中，考生往往不能从对话材料中直接听出答案，而需要做些推理、运算。如：
例6：A. Monday. B. Tuesday. C. Wednesday.
Man: What day was yesterday?
Woman: It was Saturday.
Question: What day is it the day after tomorrow?(B)
特别提示：由听力材料中的昨天是Saturday,可以推断后天是Tuesday。
同学们，在平时的听力练习中，大家要注意及时总结、归纳做简短对话题的技巧和方法，并且尽可能要求自己听一遍或两遍就能解决问题。只有对自己高标准、严要求，才能在今后的中、高考中从容应对，顺利完成该题型。
