HSK 5 Mock Test
Original HSK 5 reading practice: short passages on every HSK 3.0 topic area for your level, scored by topic. Not a copy of the official paper. Free, no signup.
一座城市在公交车站安装了电子显示屏，告诉乘客下一班车大约还有多久到站。系统通过车上的设备获取车辆位置，再结合路线上的情况计算时间。刚试用时，有人把屏幕上的分钟数当成准确承诺，发现车晚到便觉得系统没有用。工作人员解释，遇到临时堵车，预计时间会变化，因此屏幕会不断更新。后来，车站增加了“预计”两个字，并在道路拥堵时显示提示。乘客可以根据这些信息决定继续等车，还是选择其他路线，不必只凭平时的经验猜测。
屏幕上时间前的“预计”二字提醒乘客注意什么？
“遇到临时堵车，预计时间会变化” The label communicates uncertainty in the estimate rather than a new service rule.
Read HSK 5 stories
Every one has word-level pinyin, narrated audio and tap-to-define.
HSK 5Dumplings or Tangyuan
A young wife's first solstice turns tense when her mother-in-law hides the tangyuan flour.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5Moving Dad's Papers
Her father moves to Guangzhou for care, but a regional insurance mismatch blocks billing.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5Tomatoes on the Fifteenth Floor
An exhausted marketer grows tomatoes on her balcony, until pesticide drives the bees away.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5Ten Years Later
At her old school's farewell, a divorced woman finally learns who left her an unsigned note.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5The Shadow Puppet Village
A filmmaker in a mountain village must choose: quick clips, or an old man's full shadow play.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
HSK 5Grandma's Dialect
Two students build a dialect translator for hospitals, but it only understands two grandmas.
6 chapters · audio + pinyin
About the real HSK 5 exam (HSK 3.0)
These approximate timings describe the September HSK 3.0 trial. Confirm the arrangements for your booked session with your test center.
| Written exam | About 110 minutes |
|---|---|
| Oral test | Corresponding test: about 23 minutes |
Read the HSK 3.0 exam preparation guide and confirm your booking at chinesetest.cn.
What this mock test covers
Full reading test: 35 original multiple-choice questions, 5 per topic area, with a 25-minute timer. Quick check draws 10 questions across the same areas with an 8-minute timer; Learn as you go removes the timer and explains each answer. These short-passage exercises are not a copy of the official paper. Aim for 70% as our practice target; it is not an official HSK passing score.
Distinguish an argument's benefits from its limitations. The shared-bicycle sample connects shorter trips with reduced pollution, then introduces parking problems. A question about benefits requires you to keep those two parts separate.
- 日常生活 · Daily Life
- 教育情况 · Education
- 职场生活 · Workplace
- 自然与环境 · Nature & Environment
- 科学技术 · Science & Technology
- 当代社会 · Society
- 文化与传统 · Culture & Traditions
Sample question
Science & Technology · 科技发展
一座城市在公交车站安装了电子显示屏，告诉乘客下一班车大约还有多久到站。系统通过车上的设备获取车辆位置，再结合路线上的情况计算时间。刚试用时，有人把屏幕上的分钟数当成准确承诺，发现车晚到便觉得系统没有用。工作人员解释，遇到临时堵车，预计时间会变化，因此屏幕会不断更新。后来，车站增加了“预计”两个字，并在道路拥堵时显示提示。乘客可以根据这些信息决定继续等车，还是选择其他路线，不必只凭平时的经验猜测。
屏幕上时间前的“预计”二字提醒乘客注意什么？
- A.帮助乘客比较不同车站的候车人数
- B.提醒乘客到站时间可能随道路情况变化
- C.让乘客按照固定时刻安排出门时间
- D.说明公交线路改道后的新时刻表
Answer: B. 提醒乘客到站时间可能随道路情况变化
“遇到临时堵车，预计时间会变化” The label communicates uncertainty in the estimate rather than a new service rule.
HSK 5 vocabulary and reading
Institutional and analytical Chinese for insurance, management, mental health, research, and social systems.
HSKStory's normalized vocabulary index contains 3,557 cumulative words and 1,579 new items at HSK 5. The official syllabus lists 3,600 cumulative entries; normalization changes the distinct-item count.
Patterns to review: 被动句3; 一旦……，就……; 哪怕……，也…….
HSK 5 practice test — questions answered
- Is this the same as an HSK 5 mock test?
- Yes. This HSK 5 mock exam offers original short-passage reading practice on the level's topic areas. The shared-bicycle passage presents advantages followed by a challenge; identify which part the question asks about before comparing the options.
- What HSK 5 reading topics does it cover?
- The full test's 35 questions span daily life, education, workplace, nature and environment, science and technology, society, and culture and traditions. Each area has five questions. Level-5 syllabus examples include mental health, community management, research results, and ancient technology.
- How long is the HSK 5 practice test?
- Choose 35 questions with a 25-minute timer, or 10 questions with an 8-minute timer. Learn as you go shows explanations after each answer without a time limit. The September HSK 5 trial listed approximately 110 minutes for the written exam and a corresponding 23-minute oral test. Those are whole-exam arrangements, not the duration of our reading-only mock.
- Are these real HSK 5 exam questions?
- The questions are original and do not come from an official HSK 5 paper. The sample's benefit is convenient short-distance travel with less pollution. Careless parking is a problem mentioned later; selecting it would confuse a limitation with an advantage.
- Is the HSK 5 test here aligned with HSK 3.0 (the 2026 rollout)?
- This bank uses HSK 5 topic areas; it does not reproduce the official paper's task types, vocabulary range, or grammar coverage. The official syllabus has 3,600 cumulative entries, while our normalized index has 3,557 distinct words and 1,579 additions. Use the result to choose reading topics for review, alongside separate oral and written preparation.