At the Intermediate level of the HSK, more advanced conjunctions and prepositions begin slipping into questions. They are joined by proper nouns and names students are unlikely to have encountered in Chinese before, but that you'll be expected to understand in order to answer correctly (see question four). One consequent difference between the HSK Beginner and HSK Intermediate exams is that the former focuses largely on word-level knowledge, while the latter requires more sophisticated knowledge of underlying character components.