Analysis And Preparation Suggestions Of Reading Comprehension For The New HSK Fourth Level

HSK,as a national standardized examination,is designed to test the foreigners and Chinese ethnic minority students’ Chinese level.Especially for international students who want to enter the Chinese colleges and study Chinese,HSK is a proof of their Chinese ability,so it is necessary to do a research of the HSK examination.New HSK examination is introduced by national Hanban office since 2009,the new HSK fourth level as a transition from the new HSK basic to advanced intermediate stage,with universality and uniqueness of other grades in new HSK examination.Then in the first period of chapter three,we mainly compare the reading questions of new HSK fourth level with other HSK degree examinations to find the similarities and differences.And it turns out that these questions of different grade examinations,the choices,the sequences,the length of the pages,the topic of the articles and so on,as the intermediate transitions of the difficulty,is decreased from first level to third level and increased from fourth level to fifth or sixth level.In addition,most of the questions that appear in all grade papers are focused on the examination papers of fourth level,such as the blanks which is found by the new HSK first level to third level,and the paragraph or discourse reading questions are all involved in the new HSK third level to sixth level.Next the point of this paper is to contrast the content of each reading comprehension part in new HSK fourth level during the recent years,which includes the choice of words to fill in the words,especially the use of verb and quantifier.Sentence sequencing is the feature of new HSK fourth level.Among the relationship of sentence such as twists,explanations and consequences,it’ s a sort of a relationship with a correlation word that connects the sentence.The most questions that you can read in the sentences and phrases are the details,which material relates to life and philosophy.At last,by the questionnaire,thepaper makes suggestions on the participants who prepare for the new HSK fourth level,hoping to promote the development of Chinese proficiency test.