N3 Grammar · Test 6

The correct answer is 3 (に). The sentence means 'The sea in my town is very beautiful, so I want many people to come and see it.' The pattern ～てほしい ('want (someone) to do') takes the particle に to mark the person whose action you desire. Here, たくさんの人に見に来てほしい = 'I want many people to come see.'

• 1へ marks direction of movement (e.g., 海へ行く), but it cannot mark the agent/target of ～てほしい. You cannot say 人へ来てほしい.
• 2を marks the direct object of a transitive verb. Here the focus is on who you want to perform the action, not what is being acted upon, so を is wrong.
• 4も means 'also/too' (たくさんの人も = 'many people also'). While grammatically attachable, it changes the meaning to 'I also want many people to come,' which is not what the sentence intends, and it does not fulfill the ～てほしい + に pattern.

• ～てほしい — want (someone) to do (something); marks the desired agent with に
• 見に来る（みにくる） — to come to see

The correct answer is 3 (に対して). The sentence means 'At this university, scholarships are provided to students who study abroad.' に対して ('to/toward') marks the target/recipient of an action or attitude. Here, 学生に対して奨学金を支給している = 'providing scholarships to students.' This is the standard way to express giving/providing something to a group.

• 1にとって means 'for (someone's perspective/standpoint),' as in 私にとって重要だ ('important for me'). It does not mark a recipient of an action, so 奨学金を支給する学生にとって is wrong.
• 2にしたがって means 'as / in accordance with / along with,' indicating progression or compliance (e.g., 規則にしたがって 'following the rules'). It does not mark a recipient.
• 4に比べて means 'compared to,' used to compare two things (e.g., 昨年に比べて 'compared to last year'). The sentence is not making a comparison.

• に対して（にたいして） — to / toward (marks the target/recipient of an action or attitude)
• 奨学金しょうがくきん — scholarship
• 支給しきゅうする — to provide / to grant (money, supplies, etc.)

The correct answer is 1 (少しも). The sentence means 'A friend invited me to an exhibition of a famous painter, but the paintings were all ones I couldn't understand well, and it wasn't interesting at all.' 少しも is used with a negative predicate to mean 'not at all / not in the least.' 少しも面白くなかった = 'it was not interesting at all,' which fits the context of disappointment.

• 2絶対に means 'absolutely / definitely.' While it can appear with a negative (絶対に行かない 'I absolutely won't go'), 絶対に面白くなかった sounds like a strong subjective assertion ('it definitely wasn't interesting') rather than the natural 'not at all' nuance the context calls for. It is less appropriate for describing degree.
• 3なかなか with a negative means 'not easily / hard to (do),' e.g., なかなかできない ('can't seem to do it'). With the past negative 面白くなかった, なかなか面白くなかった is unnatural here — the speaker is not saying it was 'hard to become interesting' but rather that it simply was not interesting at all.
• 4せっかく means 'going to the trouble of / taking the opportunity,' used to express that an effort or opportunity was wasted (せっかく行ったのに 'even though I went to the trouble of going'). せっかく面白くなかった is grammatically wrong — せっかく requires のに or が to express the contrast, and it does not pair directly with a plain negative like 面白くなかった.

• 少すこしも — not at all / not in the least (always used with a negative predicate)
• 絶対ぜったいに — absolutely / definitely
• なかなか — quite / rather; with negative: not easily
• せっかく — going to the trouble of; at great pains (used with のに/が for wasted effort)
• 展覧会てんらんかい — exhibition

The correct order of the words is 家族(かぞく) + で + 5人(ごにん) + 楽しい休日(たのしいきゅうじつ) + を + 過(す)ごした. This forms the phrase '家族で5人楽しい休日を過ごした' (The five of us in the family spent a fun holiday). The ★ is in the third slot, which must be filled by '楽しい休日' (fun holiday). This is because '楽しい休日' is the object of the verb '過ごす' (to spend time), and it must be followed by the particle 'を' (option 2) to connect to the verb at the end of the sentence.

• 1If 'で' is placed in the ★ slot, the sentence would become '家族で5人で過ごした'. While 'で' can indicate a group doing an action, placing it here leaves '楽しい休日' and 'を' without a proper place in the sentence, breaking the grammatical structure.
• 2If 'を' is placed in the ★ slot, the sentence would become '家族で5人を過ごした'. This would mean 'spent the 5 family members', which makes no logical sense. The particle 'を' must come immediately before the verb '過ごした' and after the object being spent, which is '楽しい休日'.
• 3If '5人' is placed in the ★ slot, the sentence would become '家族で楽しい休日5人を過ごした'. This is grammatically incorrect because '5人' cannot be inserted between the noun '楽しい休日' and the particle 'を'.

• 久ひさしぶり — after a long time
• 家族かぞく — family
• 過すごす — to spend time
• 楽しい休日（たのしいきゅうじつ） — fun holiday
• 5人（ごにん） — 5 people

The correct order for the sentence is: 濃い [1. 味が] [3. 好きな人には] ★ [2. いい] [4. かもしれないが] 私はちょっと苦手だ。 This translates to: 'The ramen at the shop in front of the station might be good for people who like thick flavors, but I'm a bit bad with it.' The phrase '濃い味が好きな人には' (for people who like thick flavors) modifies 'いい' (good), and 'かもしれないが' (might be, but) connects this concession to the main clause '私はちょっと苦手だ' (I am a bit bad with it). Therefore, 'いい' fits perfectly in the ★ position.

• 1If '味が' were in the ★ position, the sentence would become '濃い 好きな人には いい 味が かもしれないが...', which is grammatically incorrect because '味が' cannot be separated from '濃い' and placed after 'いい' in this context.
• 3If '好きな人には' were in the ★ position, the sentence would become '濃い 味が いい 好きな人には かもしれないが...', which makes no sense because 'いい' would directly modify '好きな人には' instead of being the main adjective for the ramen.
• 4If 'かもしれないが' were in the ★ position, the sentence would become '濃い 味が 好きな人には かもしれないが いい...', which is grammatically incorrect because the conjectural expression 'かもしれないが' cannot come before the adjective 'いい' in this structure.

• 濃こい — thick, strong (flavor)
• 味あじ — taste, flavor
• 苦手にがて — not good at, bad with
• かもしれない — might be, may be

The correct sentence is: 久しぶりにふるさとに帰ったが、昔は何もなかった駅の周りがすっかり変わっているのを見て驚いた。('I went back to my hometown for the first time in a while, and I was surprised to see that the area around the station, which used to have nothing, had completely changed.') The word order is: 昔は何もなかった + 駅の周りが(3) + すっかり(2) + 変わっている(4) + のを(1) + 見て驚いた. The ★ marks the third blank, which is 変わっている (option 4). The pattern のを見て驚いた ('was surprised to see that ~') nominalizes the preceding clause with のを.

• 1のを belongs in the fourth blank, nominalizing the entire preceding clause (駅の周りがすっかり変わっている) to serve as the object of 見て.
• 2すっかり belongs in the second blank, modifying 変わっている: すっかり変わっている ('completely changed').
• 3駅の周りが belongs in the first blank, serving as the subject of 変わっている: 駅の周りがすっかり変わっている ('the area around the station has completely changed').

The correct order is: これまでの人生の中で　自分の子供が(2)　生まれた(4)　★日ほど(1)　うれしかった(3)　日はない。The full sentence is 「これまでの人生の中で、自分の子供が生まれた日ほどうれしかった日はない。」= 'In my life so far, there has been no day I was happier than the day my child was born.' The grammar pattern being tested is 「～ほど～ない」(nothing is as (adjective) as ~). Here, 「自分の子供が生まれた日」is the noun phrase placed before ほど, and 「うれしかった日はない」completes the pattern. The ★ is in the third slot, so the answer is 1 (日ほど).

• 2「自分の子供が」must come first because it is the subject of the relative clause 「自分の子供が生まれた」that modifies 日. Placing it in the ★ (third) slot would break the clause structure.
• 3「うれしかった」must come after 「日ほど」to form the comparison 「日ほどうれしかった日はない」. It cannot go in the third slot because ほど needs to precede the adjective.
• 4「生まれた」must directly follow 「自分の子供が」to form the verb phrase 'was born.' It belongs in the second slot, not the third.

• ほど — ～ほど～ない: pattern meaning 'nothing is as ~ as ~'; used to express that something is the most extreme case
• 生うまれる — to be born
• うれしい — happy, glad (past tense: うれしかった)

The correct order is: 今回の彼の新曲は、友情がテーマになっている　という点で(3)　これまでに(4)　★発表されてきた(2)　彼の曲と(1)　大きく違う。The full sentence is 「今回の彼の新曲は、友情がテーマになっているという点で、これまでに発表されてきた彼の曲と大きく違う。」= 'His new song this time differs greatly from his previously released songs in the point that friendship is the theme.' The phrase 「という点で」(in the point that ~) connects the reason to the main clause. Then 「これまでに発表されてきた彼の曲と」forms the comparison target. The ★ is in the third slot, so the answer is 2 (発表されてきた).

• 1「彼の曲と」must come last among the four options because it directly precedes 「大きく違う」to form 「彼の曲と大きく違う」(differs greatly from his songs). It belongs in the fourth slot.
• 3「という点で」must come first among the options because it attaches to the preceding clause 「友情がテーマになっている」to form 「友情がテーマになっているという点で」(in the point that friendship is the theme). It belongs in the first slot.
• 4「これまでに」must come before 「発表されてきた」because it is a time adverbial modifying the verb: 「これまでに発表されてきた」(released up to now). It belongs in the second slot.

• という点で（というてんで） — in the point that ~; in that ~ (used to specify the aspect in which something is true)
• 発表はっぴょうする — to release, to announce, to publish (発表されてきた: has been released up to now)
• これまでに — up to now, so far, previously
• テーマ — theme, topic