Our test today has questions that are among the hardest you will ever face while studying for the Advanced HSK. They are also a routine part of the Chinese proficiency exam.

In our opinion these find-the-mistake questions are challenging because they're open-ended. Each question consists of a simple sentence that contains a single error. This error might be grammatical, or maybe it involves a matter of word choice. All you need to do is find it. Then select the passage which contains it and move on. Good luck.
 said on
February 12, 2009
10/15, better than I thought. This was frikkin tough. Good test, thanks

Can you explain the mistake in 2....你就辛辛苦苦...?

 said on
February 12, 2009
Maybe put in some value added and explain all of the mistakes?
 said on
February 13, 2009
@stratman1,

这是一条形容词重叠的固定规则,一些可以重叠的形容词,假如它原来的形式是"AB",例如"辛苦",它一般有两种重叠的方式:1)变成 "AABB",比如"辛辛苦苦",这个时候,"辛辛苦苦"还是形容词;2)变成 "ABAB",比如"辛苦辛苦",这个时候,"辛苦辛苦"是动词。

在我们这次的HSK中,正确的应该是动词"辛苦辛苦"。

--Echo

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 said on
February 13, 2009
@gnotella100,

谢谢,你的建议非常好,我们会考虑听取的:)

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
February 15, 2009
9/15 in 11 minutes. *sigh* oh well, at least my times are coming down.
 said on
February 15, 2009
@imron,

Hey, Imron! We have been missing you. Someone is going to replace you and become our new "King of Film Friday" if you don't keep 加油 :P

How's your 牛 year going?

--Echo

echo@popupchinese.com
 said on
February 15, 2009
Haha, I retired undefeated after Spirited Away. I didn't want Film Friday to turn into Snarky Comments About Imron Thinking He's So Smart Friday ;-)

牛 year has been much the same as 鼠 year :-) Although recently I've been putting a reasonable amount of effort into increasing my reading speed, which seems to have been working at least.

Mark Lesson Studied