N5 Reading · Test 9

The sentence contrasts the situation in Nin's home country (where watermelon juice is sold in many stores) with the situation in Japan (where he doesn't know any stores that sell it). でも (demo, 'but/however') is the correct conjunction to introduce this contrasting idea: 'In my country, it is in many stores. But in Japan, I don't know any stores that sell it.'

• 1もっと (motto) means 'more.' It does not connect two contrasting sentences; it modifies adjectives/adverbs (e.g., もっと安い 'cheaper').
• 3だから (dakara) means 'therefore/so,' indicating a cause-result relationship. Here the relationship is contrast, not result, so it does not fit.
• 4いつも (itsumo) means 'always.' It is an adverb of frequency and cannot connect two clauses in this way.

• でも — but, however
• だから — therefore, so
• もっと — more
• いつも — always
• 売うる — to sell

Nin asks the class 'What juice do you like?' and then wants them to tell him. 教えてください (oshiete kudasai, 'please tell me') is the standard polite request form using て-form + ください, fitting the context of asking the audience to share information: 'Please tell me your favorite juice.'

• 1教えますよ (oshiemasu yo) means 'I will tell you.' This reverses the roles; Nin is asking the class, not announcing he will tell them.
• 2教えたいです (oshietai desu) means 'I want to tell (you).' Again this is the speaker's desire to inform, not a request to the audience.
• 4教えています (oshiete imasu) means 'I am telling (you).' This describes an ongoing action, which does not fit a request to the audience.

• 教おしえる — to tell, to teach
• 〜てください — please do ~ (request)

The passage describes a past event (先週の土曜日 'last Saturday'). After shopping, Mei went into a cafe. 入りました (hairimashita, past tense of 入る 'to enter') correctly describes this completed past action: 'I entered a cafe. Its name is Hana.'

• 1入ります (hairimasu) is non-past ('I enter/will enter'). The context is clearly past tense (先週 'last week'), so this is wrong.
• 2入るからです (hairu kara desu) means 'because (I) enter.' This gives a reason, which does not fit the narrative sequence of events.
• 4入ったからです (hatta kara desu) means 'because (I) entered.' Like option 2, this provides a reason rather than continuing the story.

• 入はいる — to enter, to go into
• 先週せんしゅう — last week
• 買い物（かいもの） — shopping

The sentence means 'The coffee at Hana was cheap.' The particle の (no) links the noun 「はな」 (the cafe's name) to コーヒー, indicating possession/origin: はなのコーヒー = 'the coffee of/at Hana.'

• 2と (to) means 'and,' linking nouns in a list. 「はな」とコーヒー would mean 'Hana and coffee,' which makes no sense here.
• 3より (yori) is used for comparisons ('than'). 「はな」よりコーヒー would mean 'coffee than Hana,' which is grammatically and semantically wrong.
• 4から (kara) can mean 'from' or 'because.' 「はな」からコーヒー would mean 'coffee from Hana,' which is less natural than の for describing a cafe's coffee, and does not fit the pattern NのN.

• の — particle linking nouns (of, 's)
• 安やすい — cheap

Mei says 'Next week too, I will go to Hana to drink coffee.' The structure V-ます stem + に行きます (ni ikimasu) means 'go (somewhere) to do V.' Since Mei is the one moving toward the cafe, 行きます (ikimasu, 'go') is correct: 飲みに行きます (nomi ni ikimasu, 'go to drink').

• 1飲んで来ます (nonde kimasu) uses て-form + 来る, meaning 'drink and come back' or 'come drinking.' The direction is wrong (来る = come toward speaker), and the nuance of 'go to drink' is not expressed.
• 2飲んで行きます (nonde ikimasu) means 'drink and then go' or 'go drinking (while drinking).' This uses て-form, which indicates sequence/manner, not purpose. The purpose form 飲みに is needed.
• 3飲みに来ます (nomi ni kimasu) means 'come to drink.' The direction verb 来る (come) is wrong because Mei is going to the cafe from her location, not coming toward the speaker/here.

• 〜に行く（〜にいく） — to go to do ~ (purpose)
• 〜に来る（〜にくる） — to come to do ~ (purpose)
• 〜て行く（〜ていく） — to do ~ and go / go while doing
• 来週らいしゅう — next week