Persistence and Resilience
坚持克服
You can now express concerns about potential outcomes, emphasize your opinions and reactions, and articulate how obstacles can be overcome.
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What You Can Now Do
Four skills you've built across this unit — revisit any lesson to sharpen them.
Listen
You can understand conversations where speakers express probabilities and concerns, as well as emphasize their attitudes and reactions.
Speak
You can express your concerns using modal adverbs, emphasize your opinions with mood adverbs, and discuss how obstacles are overcome by framing their origins.
Read & Write
You can read texts that express attitudes and probabilities, and write about overcoming obstacles while clearly articulating necessity and solutions.
Culture & Use
You can navigate discussions around persistence and resilience, recognizing when to express concern and how to emphasize your perspective appropriately.
Vocabulary Review
All 24 words from Unit 4. Tap any word to visit its dictionary page.
Grammar Review
3 grammar patterns covered in this unit.
Modal Adverbs: 大概, 恐怕
情态副词：大概、恐怕 · qíngtài fùcí: dàgài, kǒngpàExpress probability and concerned speculation using 大概 and 恐怕
他病了，今天大概不会来上课了。
He is sick; he probably won't come to class today.
天这么阴，大概要下雨。
The sky is so overcast; it will probably rain.
我头有点儿疼，恐怕是感冒了。
My head hurts a little; I'm afraid I've caught a cold.
Tone/Mood Adverbs: Expressing Attitudes and Emphasis
语气副词：白、并、当然、到底、反正、根本、果然、简直、绝对、难道、其实、千万、确实、只好、终于 · yǔqì fùcí: bái, bìng, dāngrán, dàodǐ, fǎnzhèng, gēnběn, guǒrán, jiǎnzhí, juéduì, nándào, qíshí, qiānwàn, quèshí, zhǐhǎo, zhōngyúUse mood adverbs to express frustration, emphasis, surprise, certainty, and other attitudes
老师不在办公室，我白去了。
The teacher was not in the office — I went for nothing.
这次考试并没有他们说的那么简单。
This exam was not actually as easy as they said.
学生当然应该做作业。
Students should of course do their homework.
Preposition 由: Introducing Origin/Source
介词引出时间、处所：由¹ · jiècí yǐnchū shíjiān, chùsuǒ: yóuUse the preposition 由 to indicate a starting point, origin, or agent in formal contexts
这路公交车由北京机场出发。
This bus route departs from Beijing Airport.
我们由南门进入公园。
We enter the park from the south gate.
这趟列车由上海开往广州。
This train runs from Shanghai to Guangzhou.
Cumulative Exercises
Practice all vocabulary and grammar from the entire unit in one session.
What stands between you and the cumulative review
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Take the HSK 3 Unit 4 Exam
A short mini-mock drawn from this unit's vocab, grammar, and lessons. The natural next step after this review.