N3 Vocabulary · Test 71

平日 is read へいじつ and means 'weekday (as opposed to weekends/holidays).' The sentence says 'On weekdays we are open until 8 PM.'

• 1ほんにち is not a standard reading. It is a distractor that mixes the reading of 本(ほん) with 日(にち).
• 2へいにち is an incorrect reading of 平日. The kanji 平 is read へい here, but 日 in this compound is read じつ, not にち.
• 3ほんじつ (本日) means 'today' (formal). It uses the kanji 本日, not 平日.

• 平日へいじつ — weekday
• 開あく — to be open (for business)

卒業 is read そつぎょう. The sentence means 'I graduated from university three years ago.' Option 2 correctly gives the reading of the tested word.

• 1さつぎょう is an incorrect reading; the first kanji 卒 is read そつ, not さつ.
• 3さつぎょ is wrong on both counts: wrong initial consonant (さ instead of そ) and missing the final う.
• 4そつぎょ is missing the final long vowel う; the correct reading is そつぎょう, not そつぎょ.

• 卒業そつぎょう — graduation; to graduate

固く is read かたく. The sentence means 'Please close the lid of the bottle tightly.' Here 固く modifies しめて (締めて), meaning 'tightly/firmly'. Option 4 gives the correct reading.

• 1かるく (軽く) means 'lightly', the opposite of what is needed here.
• 2ゆるく (緩く) means 'loosely', also the opposite of the intended meaning.
• 3きつく (きつく) means 'tightly' and is semantically plausible, but it is not the reading of the tested kanji 固く.

• 固かたく — firmly, tightly, hard

原料（げんりょう）means 'raw materials.' The sentence means 'All of the raw materials for this product are imported.' 原（げん）= 'original/raw,' 料（りょう）= 'material.'

• 1材料（ざいりょう）means 'ingredients/materials' (e.g., cooking ingredients or building materials) and is read ざいりょう, not げんりょう. It does not match the reading given.
• 2材量 is not a real word. 材（ざい）is the wrong first kanji and 量 alone does not form this term.
• 4原量 is not a real word. The second kanji should be 料（りょう）'material,' not 量（りょう）'quantity.'

• 原料げんりょう — raw materials
• 輸入ゆにゅう — import
• 製品せいひん — product, manufactured goods