N3 Grammar · Test 4

The correct order is 私(3)にとって(2)人生(★1)で(4)いちばん大切なのは、家族の幸せだ。 'For me, the most important thing in life is my family's happiness.' The ★ position (third blank) is filled by option 1 「で」, which connects 「人生」 with 「いちばん大切」 to mean 'in life, the most important.'

• 2「人生」 must come after 「にとって」 and before 「で」, so it belongs in the second blank, not the ★ position.
• 3「にとって」 attaches to 「私」 to form 「私にとって」('for me / to me'), so it belongs in the first blank, not the ★ position.
• 4「いちばん大切」 must come right before 「なのは」 at the end, so it belongs in the fourth blank, not the ★ position.

• にとって — for (someone); to (someone) — marks whose perspective applies
• 人生じんせい — life (one's life in general)
• 幸しあわせ — happiness

The correct order is 今まで(2)何度も(3)見たけれど(★4)何度(1)見ても感動して泣いてしまう。 'I've watched it many times up to now, but no matter how many times I watch it, I still get moved to tears.' The ★ position (third blank) is filled by option 4 「何度」, which pairs with 「見ても」 to form the conditional pattern 「何度見ても」('no matter how many times I watch').

• 1「見ても」 must come immediately after 「何度」 to form 「何度見ても」, so it belongs in the fourth blank, not the ★ position.
• 2「何度も」 modifies 「見たけれど」 to mean 'watched many times,' so it belongs in the first blank, not the ★ position.
• 3「見たけれど」 ('watched, but') follows 「何度も」 and precedes 「何度見ても」, so it belongs in the second blank, not the ★ position.

• 何度なんども — many times; repeatedly
• 何度〜ても（なんど〜ても） — no matter how many times one ~
• 感動かんどうして — being moved / touched (te-form of 感動する)

The correct order is 窓が(2)大通り側に(1)ある(★3)せいで(4)車の音が聞こえてきて、うるさいと感じることがある。 'Because the windows face the main road, the sound of cars comes through, and sometimes it feels noisy.' The ★ position (third blank) is filled by option 3 「せいで」, which marks a negative cause/reason: 'because of ~ (with a bad result).' Note: the stem contains 「感じることがある」 which should likely be 「感じることがある」 or more naturally 「感じることがある」 — actually the likely original is 「感じることがある」('there are times I feel it's noisy'). This is grammatically acceptable as written.

• 1「ある」 completes the phrase 「大通り側にある」('located on the main-road side'), so it belongs in the second blank, not the ★ position.
• 2「大通り側に」 follows 「窓が」 to indicate where the windows face, so it belongs in the first blank, not the ★ position.
• 4「車の音が」 is the subject of 「聞こえてきて」 that follows the blanks, so it belongs in the fourth blank, not the ★ position.

• せいで — because of ~ (used for negative/unfavorable causes)
• 大通おおどおり — main road; main street
• 聞きこえてきて — can be heard (te-form of 聞こえてくる, sound reaching the speaker)

The correct order is 奥さんの(1)作る(3)ハンバーグ(★2)ほど(4)おいしいものはないとよく言っている。 'He often says there is nothing as delicious as the hamburg steak his wife makes.' The ★ position (third blank) is filled by option 2 「ほど」, which is used in the pattern 「〜ほど〜ない」('nothing is as ~ as ~'). Here, 「奥さんの作るハンバーグほどおいしいものはない」 = 'there is nothing more delicious than the hamburg steak his wife makes.'

• 1「作る」 modifies 「ハンバーグ」 to mean 'the hamburg steak (she) makes,' so it belongs in the second blank, not the ★ position.
• 3「ハンバーグ」 is the noun being modified by 「作る」 and followed by 「ほど」, so it belongs in the first blank after 「奥さんの」... actually it belongs in the second group; it goes in the blank right before ★, i.e., the second blank position after 「作る」. It is not the ★ itself.
• 4「おいしい」 must come right before 「ものはない」 to form 「おいしいものはない」, so it belongs in the fourth blank, not the ★ position.

• 〜ほど〜ない — not as ~ as ~; nothing is as ~ as ~
• ハンバーグ — hamburg steak (Japanese-style Salisbury steak)
• 奥おくさん — wife (polite; someone else's wife)

The correct order is (1)食事をするたび(4)このレストランで(★2)妻との初めてのデートで(3)来たときのことを思い出す。 'Every time I have a meal, I remember the time I came to this restaurant on my first date with my wife.' The ★ position (third blank) is filled by option 2 「妻との初めてのデートで」, which connects with 「来たとき」 to form 「妻との初めてのデートで来たとき」('when I came on my first date with my wife').

• 1「食事をするたび」 ('every time I eat') sets the temporal frame at the beginning, so it belongs in the first blank, not the ★ position.
• 3「来たとき」 ('when (I) came') must come right before 「のことを思い出す」 to form 「来たときのことを思い出す」, so it belongs in the fourth blank, not the ★ position.
• 4「このレストランで」 ('at this restaurant') specifies the place of the date, coming before 「妻との初めてのデートで来たとき」, so it belongs in the second blank, not the ★ position.

• 〜たび — every time ~; each time ~
• デート — date (romantic)
• 思い出す（おもいだす） — to remember; to recall

The correct answer is 1 (も). The sentence means 'I was so tired last night that after dinner, I fell asleep on the sofa without even turning off the lights.' Here, も attaches to 電気 to add the nuance of 'even' — 電気も消さないで means 'without even turning off the lights.' This fits perfectly: the speaker was so exhausted that they didn't do something as basic as turning off the lights before falling asleep.

• 2と would mean 'and' (electricity and...), which doesn't connect meaningfully with 消さないで in this sentence. There is no pairing or conditional relationship here.
• 3が would mark 電気 as the subject of 消さないで, producing 'the lights didn't turn off and I fell asleep,' but the speaker is the one who failed to turn them off — 電気 is the object of 消す, not the subject. This makes the sentence unnatural.
• 4で would mark 電気 as a means or location, which makes no sense with 消さないで ('without turning off by means of the lights').

• 電気でんき — electricity; (the) light(s)
• 消けさないで — without turning off (te-form negative of 消す)
• ソファ（そふぁ） — sofa
• 〜も — even (used to emphasize that something unexpected was also not done)

The correct answer is 4 (疲れたとか仕事が多いとか). The sentence means 'Yamada-san, who sits next to me, complains a lot. She's always saying things like "I'm tired" and "I have too much work."' The pattern 〜とか〜とか is used to list examples of quoted or reported content, and it pairs naturally with 言っている ('is saying'). Here it conveys that Yamada-san repeatedly says things along the lines of being tired or having too much work — exactly the kind of vague listing of complaints that fits 文句が多い ('complains a lot').

• 1疲れて仕事が多くて uses the て-form to chain two reasons/states, but it doesn't work naturally with 言っている. It would awkwardly mean 'being tired and having a lot of work, she says...' — the grammar doesn't present these as quoted complaints.
• 2疲れたり仕事が多かったり uses 〜たり〜たり to list representative actions/states, but this pattern describes what someone does/is, not what they say. With 言っている it becomes unnatural: 'she says she does things like getting tired and having a lot of work.'
• 3疲れたし仕事が多いし uses 〜し to list reasons, which is for giving multiple justifications. It doesn't fit 言っている because it frames the tiredness and workload as the speaker's own reasons rather than as examples of what Yamada-san says.

• 文句が多い（もんくがおおい） — complains a lot; is full of complaints
• 〜とか〜とか — things like ~ and ~ (used to list examples, especially of quoted/reported speech)
• 疲つかれた — was tired / am tired
• 仕事が多い（しごとがおおい） — has a lot of work

The correct answer is 4 (あまりにも). The sentence means 'I tried going to a recently opened cake shop for the first time today, but it was so crowded that I went home without buying anything.' あまりにも means 'excessively / too much / so much so that,' and it pairs naturally with the explanatory 〜ので ('because'): あまりにも込んでいたので = 'because it was excessively crowded.' This explains why the speaker left empty-handed.

• 1ちっとも means 'not at all' and is always used with a negative predicate. Here 込んでいた is affirmative past tense, so ちっとも込んでいた is grammatically contradictory and nonsensical.
• 2せっかく means 'going to the trouble of / with effort' and expresses that one made a special effort or had a good opportunity. せっかく込んでいた ('I went to the trouble of it being crowded') makes no logical sense — crowding is not something one does on purpose.
• 3ようやく means 'finally / at last.' ようやく込んでいた would mean 'it was finally crowded,' which doesn't explain why the speaker left without buying anything. The nuance of 'finally' doesn't fit the causal relationship with 帰ってきた.

• あまりにも — excessively; too (much); so much so that
• ちっとも — not at all (always used with a negative)
• せっかく — with effort; going to the trouble of;好不容易
• ようやく — finally; at last
• 込こんでいた — was crowded (past tense of 込む)
• 買かわずに — without buying (negative te-form alternative of 買う)