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HSK 6 reading practice

Keep track of a longer story, motives and the evidence for a character’s choices.

Summarise each stage without translating sentence by sentence. Support your account of the character’s decisions with two details from the text.

Publisher levels use a different scale from HSK. These are editorial practice selections; “Level 5” below is the publisher’s level, not an HSK 5 label.

辛波薇亚

Simbegwire

Explain why Simbegwire leaves her stepmother and what changes before she considers returning.

Publisher: Level 5 · Storybooks Canada

Audio

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初到挪威

Coming to Norway

Start with the ending of Coming to Norway. Distinguish what actually happened from the alternative life introduced with 如果.

Publisher: Level 5 · LIDA Stories

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