The HSK is designed to trick you. Some of the words and phrases it will test you on are so common you may have used them for years without giving them a second thought. But do you really understand them? And do you understand the difference between two similar ways of expressing roughly the same idea?

In our reading comprehension exercises, we put you in a bind. Your challenge is to identify which of the available options best reflects the meaning of the selected word given its original context. Multiple answers might feel correct, but only one actually is. Good luck.