Positioning exercises are a staple of the Intermediate HSK exam, although they usually take up only a small portion of the total test. The reason for this is that the questions themselves are less challenging than their fill-in-the-blanks counterparts, as most options should be obviously incorrect. It is sometimes even possible to cruise through these questions ignoring the full sentence and focusing only on immediate collocations.

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