N2 Grammar · Test 31

The sentence means: 'When you join Company X, new employees are apparently made to practice phone reception for two weeks first.' させられる is the causative-passive form of する, meaning 'to be made to do.' そうだ at the end indicates hearsay ('I heard that...'). The new employees are the ones being forced to practice, so causative-passive + hearsay is the correct combination.

• 2させるつもりだ means '(someone) intends to make (them) do.' This expresses the intention of the person doing the forcing, not the experience of the new employees, and does not match the hearsay nuance conveyed by そうだ.
• 3させられたままだ means 'remain in the state of having been made to do.' 〜たまま indicates an unchanging state, which does not fit the context of describing a standard onboarding practice.
• 4させているところだ means '(someone) is in the process of making (them) do.' This describes an ongoing action from the perspective of the causer, not the employees' experience, and does not convey hearsay.

• させられる — to be made to do (causative-passive of する)
• 〜そうだ — it is said that...; I heard that... (hearsay)

Ishikawa is responding to a discussion about what theme to choose for the next study session. After acknowledging Yamashita's suggestion, Ishikawa offers his own proposal: 'I think it might be good to take up the questionnaire analysis method.' 取り上げてみてはどうかと思います = 'I think it would be good to try taking up...' This is a polite, indirect way of making a suggestion, fitting the collaborative discussion context.

• 1取り上げようとするでしょうか means 'Will (someone) try to take up...?' This is a question about someone's volitional attempt, which does not fit Ishikawa's role of making his own proposal.
• 2取り上げるようになるでしょうか means 'Will (someone) come to take up...?' This asks about a future change, not a suggestion. It does not fit the context of proposing a theme.
• 3取り上げたいのだろうと思います means 'I think (someone) probably wants to take up...' Ishikawa would be guessing someone else's desire, but he is expressing his own opinion/suggestion, not speculating about others.

• 取り上げる（とりあげる） — to take up; to address (a topic)
• 〜てみてはどうかと思う（〜てみてはどうかとおもう） — I think it might be good to try doing... (polite suggestion)

Option 2 「落ちちゃったんじゃない」is correct. The elder sister is guessing what happened: 'Maybe it got blown away and fell outside?' The pattern んじゃない (〜のではない) expresses a conjecture or soft guess: 'Isn't it that…?' 落ちる is intransitive (to fall), which is correct because the T-shirt fell on its own after being blown by the wind.

• 1「落ちちゃったんだって」– だって means 'I heard that…' (hearsay/reporting someone else's words). The sister is making a guess, not reporting hearsay, so this doesn't fit.
• 3「落としちゃったんだって」uses 落とす (transitive: to drop something), which would require someone deliberately dropping the T-shirt. Also, だって (hearsay) is wrong here for the same reason as option 1.
• 4「落としちゃったんじゃない」uses 落とす (transitive: to drop), implying someone dropped the shirt. But the shirt was blown by the wind and fell on its own, so the intransitive 落ちる is needed.

• 〜んじゃない（〜のではない） — Isn't it that…?; I think maybe… (expresses conjecture/guess)
• 落おちる — to fall (intransitive)
• 落おとす — to drop; to let fall (transitive)
• 飛とばされる — to be blown away (passive of 飛ばす)

Option 1 「同じでいいはずがない」is correct. はずがない means 'there is no way / it is impossible that…' The sentence says: 'In this modern age of advancing informatization and internationalization, there is no way that school education should be the same as before. It's only natural that new educational content like computers is being introduced.' The strong negation はずがない fits the argument that education must change.

• 2「同じというだけではない」means 'it's not just that it's the same' – this would imply it IS the same but there's more to it, which contradicts the context that education should NOT be the same.
• 3「同じならいいに違いない」means 'it must be fine if it's the same' – this says being the same is good, which is the opposite of what the sentence argues.
• 4「同じにならないことはない」is a double negative meaning 'it's not impossible for it to be the same' = 'it could be the same,' which weakly allows sameness rather than denying it. This doesn't match the strong assertion needed.

• 〜はずがない — there is no way; it is impossible that… (strong negation/conjecture of impossibility)
• 情報化じょうほうか — informatization; shift to an information-based society
• 国際化こくさいか — internationalization; globalization
• 取り入れる（とりいれる） — to introduce; to adopt; to incorporate