This is a set of two books: The first book has over 600 exercises which are classified according to the structure of the HSK Basic level test into three sections: listening comprehension, grammatical structure and reading comprehension. Also, there are three sets of simulated tests with a total of 420 test items. The second volume contains answers and gives notes in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean for 50 percent of the total exercises. There is no CD included in this book.