N2 Grammar · Test 17

「に応じて（におうじて）」means 'in accordance with / depending on.' The sentence means: 'This restaurant prepares several courses in accordance with the customer's budget.' The budget determines which courses are offered, so に応じて fits perfectly.

• 1「に比べて（にくらべて）」means 'compared to.' The restaurant is not comparing courses to the budget; it is adjusting courses based on the budget.
• 2「に先立って（にさきだって）」means 'prior to / before doing something.' 'Before the budget' makes no sense here.
• 4「に向けて（にむけて）」means 'toward / aiming for.' 'Toward the budget' does not convey the intended meaning of adjusting according to the budget.

• 予算よさん — budget
• に応じて（におうじて） — in accordance with, depending on
• に比べて（にくらべて） — compared to
• に先立って（にさきだって） — prior to, before
• に向けて（にむけて） — toward, aiming for

「途中で（とちゅうで）」means 'on the way / in the middle of doing something.' The sentence means: 'On the way to school, I noticed I had forgotten my wallet.' 来る途中で = 'on the way (here) to school,' which fits perfectly.

• 2「ついでに」means 'while you're at it / taking the opportunity.' It implies doing something as a convenient side action, not noticing something mid-journey.
• 3「中で（なかで）」means 'inside / among.' 来る中で is not a natural grammatical pattern for 'on the way.'
• 4「うちに」means 'while / during the time that.' While it can mean 'while,' 来るうちに does not naturally express 'on the way to'; it would imply 'while coming' in a more abstract sense and is not idiomatic for this situation.

• 途中とちゅうで — on the way, in the middle of
• ついでに — while you're at it, taking the opportunity
• うちに — while, during

「にわたり」means 'spanning / lasting (a period of time).' The sentence means: 'Due to a crossing accident, the train stopped for two hours.' A time duration followed by にわたり emphasizes that the action continued over that entire span.

• 1「につき」means 'per' (e.g., one per person). 'Two hours per' does not make sense here.
• 2「につれ」means 'as... goes / along with.' It expresses proportional change, not duration.
• 4「にともない」means 'along with / accompanying.' It expresses concurrent change, not a time span.

• にわたり — spanning, lasting (a period)
• につき — per
• につれ — as...goes, along with
• にともない — along with, accompanying
• 踏切ふみきり — railroad crossing

「なにも」used with a negative means 'there is no need to go so far as to...' It expresses that the speaker thinks the reaction is excessive. The sentence means: 'Just from failing once, there's no need to speak so badly of (someone/them) to that extent.' なにも...なくてもいい is a fixed pattern conveying 'you don't have to go that far.'

• 1「なにを」is the object particle form and does not form the idiomatic なにも...ない pattern meaning 'no need to go so far.'
• 2「なにが」is the subject particle form and similarly does not create the needed idiomatic expression.
• 4「なにで」means 'by what means / with what' and does not fit the pattern なにも...なくてもいいだろう.

• なにも — (with negative) there is no need to go so far as to...
• 悪く言う（わるくいう） — to speak badly of

「一方だ（いっぽうだ）」means 'continuing to increase / keep doing (in one direction).' It is used with verbs of change to show a trend that keeps going in one direction. The sentence means: 'Tanaka won this tournament too, following the previous one. Expectations for his future success keep rising.' 高まる一方だ = 'continue to rise,' which fits perfectly.

• 1「中心だ（ちゅうしんだ）」means 'is the center / focus.' 'Expectations are the center' is not a natural expression.
• 2「事情だ（じじょうだ）」means 'is the circumstance / situation.' This does not convey the idea of continuously rising expectations.
• 3「原因だ（げんいんだ）」means 'is the cause.' 'Expectations are the cause' does not fit the context of increasing expectations.

• 一方いっぽうだ — continuing to (increase/change) in one direction, keep -ing
• 高たかまる — to rise, to increase (expectations, tension, etc.)
• 活躍かつやく — active role, success, achievement

The correct answer is 3 (うえ). 「ご予約のうえ、ご来店ください」means 'please come to the store after making a reservation.' The pattern Nのうえ(で) indicates doing action B after completing action A — here, visiting the store after making a reservation. It fits the polite, instructional tone perfectly.

• 1あげく means 'after doing ~ (with a negative/disappointing result),' e.g., 迷ったあげく. It carries a negative nuance and does not fit a simple sequence of instructions.
• 2あまり means 'due to excessive ~,' e.g., 心配のあまり. It does not express a sequence of actions.
• 4ほう requires a comparative structure (〜のほうが〜) and cannot connect ご予約 to ご来店 in this way.

• 予約よやく — reservation
• 来店らいてん — coming to the store
• 〜のうえ(で) — after doing ~ (then do the next action)

The correct answer is 2 (ある). The pattern is あるながらも, meaning 'even though it is ~.' The director says the film is 'realistic, yet without losing its poetic atmosphere.' The grammar 〜ながらも ('even while/even though') attaches to the dictionary form of the copula ある here: 現実的である + ながらも → 現実的で(ある)ながらも. The ある is the attributive/dictionary form of だ/です, and ながらも attaches directly to it.

• 1あり is the ます-stem (連用形) of ある. The pattern 〜ながらも does not attach to the ます-stem in this way; it requires the dictionary form (ある).
• 3なり is not a valid copula form here and does not produce a grammatical phrase with ながらも.
• 4なる means 'to become' and is semantically wrong; the sentence needs 'is (realistic),' not 'becomes realistic.'

• 現実的げんじつてき — realistic
• 詩的してき — poetic
• 〜ながらも — even though ~; despite being ~

The correct answer is 2 (みたいに). B says 「もう一生会えないみたいに言うのはやめてよ」= 'Stop saying it as if we'll never meet again in our lifetime.' みたいに is the adverbial form of みたい ('seems like/as if'), and it modifies 言う to mean 'say as if ~.' This conveys B's feeling that A is speaking as though they will never meet again, which B wants them to stop.

• 1らしく is the adverbial form of らしい, which is used for hearsay or judgment based on objective evidence. It does not express the subjective 'as if' feeling that みたいに conveys here. The nuance is wrong for this conversational context.
• 3らしいって is ungrammatical in this position. って is a quoting particle and does not combine with らしい to modify 言う properly here.
• 4みたいっ is an incomplete/cut-off form and is not a valid grammatical option in written form.

• 一生いっしょう — lifetime
• 〜みたいに — as if ~; like ~ (adverbial form of みたい)

The correct answer is 3 (とても). 「とてもプロの試合とは思えない内容だった」= 'The content was such that I couldn't possibly believe it was a professional match.' とても〜(とは)思えない is a fixed negative pattern meaning 'cannot possibly think/consider ~.' It perfectly expresses B's disbelief at the poor quality of the game.

• 1なんて is used to express surprise or belittlement about a noun (e.g., プロの試合なんて). While it can convey disbelief, なんてプロの試合とは思えない does not form a natural grammatical pattern with とは思えない. とても〜ない is the standard collocation.
• 2仮に means 'hypothetically/if for the sake of argument.' It does not fit — B is not hypothesizing but expressing actual disbelief.
• 4二度と means 'never again' and is used with a negative verb to mean 'will never do ~ again.' It does not pair with 思えない in this context.

• ミスの連続（ミスのれんぞく） — continuous mistakes
• とても〜ない — cannot possibly ~; by no means ~

The correct answer is 4 (わけではない). 「必ずしも最初から順調だったわけではない」= 'It is not necessarily the case that it was smooth from the start.' The pattern 必ずしも〜わけではない is a fixed expression meaning 'it is not necessarily the case that ~.' The sentence contrasts the current smooth progress with the fact that things were not always smooth from the beginning.

• 1に限らない means 'is not limited to ~.' It does not pair with 必ずしも and does not express 'not necessarily.'
• 2必要はない means 'there is no need to ~.' It is semantically irrelevant — the sentence is about whether something was the case, not about necessity.
• 3にちがいない means 'must be / definitely is ~' (strong positive conviction). This contradicts the contrastive が in the sentence, which signals that the second clause negates the expectation set up by the first clause.

• 必ずしも〜わけではない（かならずしも〜わけではない） — it is not necessarily the case that ~
• 順調じゅんちょう — smooth, going well