Our Intermediate HSK test for today will quiz you on the difference between words with nearly identical meanings. As always, only one of the four answers is proper given either the grammatical structure of the sentence or its context. These type of fill-in-the-blank questions constitute a major portion of the HSK exam at the intermediate level, so you should get good at them. And - as always - if you have any questions, feel free to leave us a comment or contact us by email at echo@popupchinese.com.
 said on
November 5, 2010
For Q1 how would one translate 多元 in the sentence 生活是一道多元方程?

= Life is like a "mutifaceted" equation?

The dictionary does not provide any useful clues...

 said on
November 7, 2010
@huyilin,

Actually it should be "mutivariate".

--Echo

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 said on
November 14, 2010
Wow - the HSK sure is hard --- certainly the correct answer given the context, but with the context you need to know so many naunces of the each word to get to the right answer...
Mark Lesson Studied