N5 Reading · Test 7

Option 4 「来きてから」 is correct. The sentence reads 「日本にほんに来きてから、いろいろな店みせで食たべました」('After coming to Japan, I ate at various shops'). Ken is a foreign student who came TO Japan, so the verb must be 来る (to come), and the pattern 〜てから ('after doing ~') correctly expresses the sequence: first he came to Japan, then he ate at various shops.

• 1「行いくから」 uses 行く ('to go'), which is the wrong direction — Ken came to Japan, he didn't go away from it. Also, 〜から alone means 'because/since', which does not express 'after doing ~'.
• 2「行いってから」 correctly uses the 〜てから pattern ('after doing ~'), but the verb 行く ('to go') is wrong here. From Ken's perspective he came TO Japan, so 来る is needed, not 行く.
• 3「来くるから」 uses the correct verb 来る ('to come'), but 〜から alone means 'because/since' and does not express the sequential 'after doing ~' meaning needed here.

• 来くる — to come
• 行いく — to go
• 〜てから — after doing ~ (sequence of actions)
• 〜から — because / since (reason)

Option 2 「行いきませんか」 is correct. The sentence reads 「すしがすきな人ひとは、いっしょに行いきませんか」('Would anyone who likes sushi like to go together?'). Ken is inviting his classmates to go to the sushi shop with him. 〜ませんか is the standard N5 invitation pattern meaning 'won't you ~? / would you like to ~?'.

• 1「行いきましたか」 is the past tense question 'Did you go?', which asks about a completed past action. Ken is not asking whether someone already went; he is inviting them to go together now.
• 3「行いっていましたか」 means 'Were you going? / Had you been going?' (past progressive / past continuous). This does not fit an invitation context at all.
• 4「行いっていませんか」 means 'Aren't you going?' or 'Haven't you gone?', which is a negative question about someone's status — not an invitation.

• 〜ませんか — won't you ~? / would you like to ~? (invitation)
• 行いく — to go
• いっしょに — together

Option 4 「は」 is correct. The sentence reads 「えきのちかくの本屋ほんやは大おおきいお店みせです」('The bookstore near the station is a big shop'). Here は marks the topic — 'the bookstore near the station' — and the sentence describes what it is (a big shop). This is the most natural structure: (topic) は (description) です.

• 1「か」 is the question particle. It would make the sentence a yes/no question ('Is the bookstore near the station a big shop?'), but the passage is a statement, not a question.
• 2「と」 means 'and' or 'with'. It would imply 'the bookstore near the station AND a big shop', which makes no sense grammatically in this sentence.
• 3「の」 is the possessive/modifying particle. 「本屋ほんやの大おおきいお店みせ」 would mean 'a big shop OF the bookstore', which is unnatural and does not convey the intended meaning that the bookstore IS a big shop.

• は — topic marker (as for ~)
• の — possessive / modifying particle (N1 of N2)
• と — and / with
• か — question particle

Option 3 「あります」 is correct. The preceding sentence says 「外国がいこくの本ほんも売うっています」('They also sell foreign books'). Then 「わたしの国くにのもあります」 means 'They also have books from my country.' The subject is 本 (books, an inanimate object), so the existence verb あります is required, not います (used for animate beings).

• 1「います」 is the existence verb for animate beings (people, animals). Books are inanimate, so あります must be used, not います.
• 2「読よみます」 means '(I) will read'. The sentence is about the existence/availability of books from her country at the shop, not about reading them.
• 4「します」 means 'to do'. It does not fit the pattern 「〜もあります」('there is also ~') needed here.

• あります — there is / there are (inanimate objects)
• います — there is / there are (animate beings)
• 売うる — to sell
• 〜も — also / too

Option 1 「だから」 is correct. The sentence reads 「だから、本ほんはいつもえきのちかくの本屋ほんやで買かいます」('Therefore, I always buy books at the bookstore near the station'). The preceding sentences explain why she likes that bookstore (it's big, sells foreign books including her country's, and has many cookbooks). だから ('therefore / so') logically connects the reasons to the conclusion that she always buys books there.

• 2「では」 means 'then / well then' and is used to shift topics or start a new statement. It does not express a cause-and-result relationship.
• 3「それから」 means 'and then / after that' and indicates temporal sequence. The relationship here is not sequential but causal (reason → result), so それから is wrong.
• 4「でも」 means 'but / however' and expresses contrast. Using it here would contradict the logical flow — the result follows naturally from the reasons, so a contrastive connector is inappropriate.

• だから — therefore / so
• それから — and then / after that
• でも — but / however
• では — then / well then