AP Chinese Practice Test

Nowadays, the number of students learning Chinese in their senior high school is increasing. And most of them will attend the AP Chinese Practice Test, which plays an important role in studying Chinese. Many of them find it really difficult to pass the exam because the there are too many difficult points and key points in the exam.

So in the following mandarin language lessons, we will come to some typical questions that occur in the AP Practice Test.

Tom has just attended the exam. The most impressive question in his mind is to distinguish some characters with similar structure but different usage. Here is an example.

Fill in the following blanks with the best choices.

“（）天白云，（）山绿水，我开心（）奔跑在草原上。”

“A.蓝(lan2), B. 篮(lan2), C清(qing1), D青(qing1), E. 的(de5) F. 地(de5) G. 得(de5)”

If you come across such a question, can you identify these characters and choose the right ones?

So, let us have a detailed analysis of it. “蓝天白云(lan2 tian1 bai2 yun2)” is the correct answer, which means “blue sky and write cloud”. The character “蓝” is really similar to “篮”. Even the Chinese students may confuse them sometimes. Actually, “蓝” is a kind of color. We usually say “蓝色(lan2se4)” that means blue. And “篮” is more frequently used to refer to the basket. So we say “篮筐(lan2 kuang1), which represents basketry” and “篮球(lan2 qiu2), which stands for basketball”. Many people ask how to learn Chinese characters? Learning to identifying the similar ones is very important. 

As for the “清(qing1)” and “青(qing1)”, they are also easily to be confused. As we can see, compared with “青”， “清(qing1)” has “氵” as the left part. So it indicates “清” is related to the water. And that is why we often say “清澈(qing1 che4), which means clear and limpid”. However, “青” refers to a color. We have the phrase “青色(qing1 se4), which is equal to cyan”.

To know the differences between “的”, “得”, and “地”, you can learn these Chinese characters online by yourself. 

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