N4 Vocabulary · Test 58

The correct option is 1. アイディア (idea) means 'idea'. The sentence means 'If everyone thinks together, a good idea might come up.' 'アイディアがでる' (an idea comes up) is a common collocation.

• 2ニュース (news) means 'news'. News does not 'come up' from everyone thinking together.
• 3クラブ (club) means 'club'. This does not fit the context of thinking.
• 4シーズン (season) means 'season'. This is unrelated to thinking.

• アイディア — idea
• ニュース — news
• クラブ — club
• シーズン — season

The sentence means 'I sent the books I bought in Japan to my home country.' The verb 送る (おくろう) means 'to send' and is the natural verb for mailing/sending things like books to another country.

• 1落とす (おとす) means 'to drop.' You don't drop books to your country; this does not fit the context of sending something home.
• 2かける can mean 'to hang' or 'to put on,' but it is not used for sending books. It is a distractor that looks plausible but does not match the context.
• 4投げる (なげる) means 'to throw.' Throwing books to your country is nonsensical here.

• 送おくる — to send (a thing to someone/somewhere)
• 落おとす — to drop, to let fall
• 投なげる — to throw

The phrase あじがする is a fixed expression meaning 'to have a taste / to taste a certain way.' So へんなあじがしますね means 'it has a strange taste, doesn't it.' This is the correct idiomatic pattern.

• 1来ます (きます) means 'comes.' 味が来る is not a valid expression for taste.
• 2見ます (みます) means 'to see/look.' Taste is not perceived with 見る in this pattern.
• 4います is for existence of animate objects. 味がいる is not a valid expression for having a taste.

• 味あじがする — to have a (certain) taste / to taste like

The sentence means 'It's good that your mother's illness got better, isn't it?' 治る (なおる) means 'to recover, to be cured,' and 病気が治る is the standard collocation for an illness getting better. With よかったですね, the て-form なおって expresses the condition of having recovered.

• 1落ちる (おちる) means 'to fall/drop.' 病気が落ちる is not a valid expression for recovering.
• 2切れる (きれる) means 'to be cut / to break.' This does not collocate with 病気 in the sense of recovery.
• 3しまう means 'to finish/close/put away,' and しまって is its て-form. 病気がしまう is not a natural expression for an illness improving.

• 治なおる — to recover, to be cured (of an illness)
• 病気びょうき — illness, sickness

The sentence means 'There is someone walking with an umbrella open, so it must be raining outside.' 傘をさす (かさをさす) is the fixed phrase for 'to open/put up an umbrella.' The て-form さして indicates the state of doing that while walking (あるいている).

• 2押す (おす) means 'to push.' You don't push an umbrella; this is a plausible-looking distractor.
• 3開ける (あける) means 'to open (a door/window/box).' While it means 'open,' it is not the verb used for opening an umbrella.
• 4受ける (うける) means 'to receive/accept.' This does not fit the action of using an umbrella.

• 傘かさをさす — to open/put up an umbrella
• 押おす — to push
• 開あける — to open (door, window, container)

歌(うた) means 'song/singing.' The sentence means 'That person has a good voice and is good at singing.' The correct reading is うた.

• 1おん(音) is the on-reading of 音, meaning 'sound' — a different kanji and meaning from 歌.
• 2うそ(嘘) means 'lie' — unrelated distractor with a similar look.
• 3おと(音) is the kun-reading of 音, meaning 'sound' — a different kanji from 歌.

• 歌うた — song, singing
• 声こえ — voice

野菜(やさい) means 'vegetable'. The correct reading is やさい (option 1). The sentence means 'These vegetables taste good.'

• 2やざい is an incorrect reading of 野菜; the second character 菜(さい) is not voiced here.
• 3やせい would correspond to 野生(やせい) 'wild', a different word.
• 4やぜい is not a valid reading; it is a distractor mixing voiced sounds.

• 野菜やさい — vegetable

味(あじ) means 'taste/flavor'. The sentence 野菜は味がいいです means 'The vegetables taste good (have good flavor).' Option 1 あじ is correct.

• 2いろ(色) means 'color', not taste.
• 3かたち(形) means 'shape', not taste.
• 4におい(匂い/臭い) means 'smell', not taste.

• 味あじ — taste, flavor
• 色いろ — color
• 形かたち — shape
• 匂におい — smell

気分(きぶん) means 'feeling/physical condition'. The correct reading is きぶん (option 2), with voiced ぶ. The sentence means 'If you start feeling unwell, please stop exercising.'

• 1きふん is an unvoiced misreading; 分 is read ぶん here, and 気分 is rendaku-voiced to きぶん.
• 3きもち(気持ち) means 'feeling/mood' and is a different word; the kanji 気分 does not read as きもち.
• 4きもぢ is an incorrect/dialectal voicing of 気持ち, not a reading of 気分.

• 気分きぶん — feeling, physical condition, mood
• 気持きもち — feeling, mood

悪く(わるく) is the て-form adverbial of 悪い(わるい) 'bad'. 気分が悪くなる means 'to feel unwell / become in bad condition'. Option 3 わるく is correct.

• 1いたく(痛く) comes from 痛い(いたい) 'painful', a different word.
• 2ひどく(酷く) comes from 酷い(ひどい) 'terrible/severe'; plausible but not the reading of 悪い.
• 4おかしく(可笑しく) comes from おかしい 'strange/funny', a different word.

• 悪わるい — bad
• 痛いたい — painful
• 酷ひどい — terrible, severe
• 可笑おかしい — strange, funny