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N2 - Reading - chochajin - 2010-10-08
Hello.
I'm working my way through a rather new book with lots of problems that will most likely appear in the new N2 test. (The book is called: 合格できる・日本語能力試験N2).
Anyways, this is about the reading part. I don't know if that's different from the old JLPT, but there are a few questions that I can't answer correctly although I (thought I) understood everything.
Here's an example:
先日、テレビのニュースを見ている時のことだった。幼児を車の中に置いたままにして、両親が買い物をして車に戻ると、その幼児は車中で亡くなっていたという事故のニュースをやっていた。 ニュースを読んでいるアナウンサーは、最後に、怒った声で「これは事故ではなく、殺人です」と自分の意見をはっきり述べた。
私は、これを聞いて、「ちょっと待てよ」と言ってしまった。確かに、幼児にとっては気の毒なことだが、ニュースを読むアナウンサーが、このような自分の意見を言ってしまっていいのだろうか、と疑問におもったのだ。
報道というのは、テレビも新聞もなるべく事実のみを伝え、そこには、その社やアナウンサー、記者の個人の考えを入れるべきではないと思う。
So that was the short article and here comes one of the questions:
「ちょっと待てよ」と言ってしまったとあるが、誰に言ったのか。
1 筆者が一緒にテレビを見ていた家族に言った。
2 筆者が事故を起こした両親に言った。
3 筆者が筆者自身に言った。
4 筆者がテレビ局に対して行った。
After reading the question, I wanted to say to the "anouncer". Then I read the answers and saw that it was not an option.
1 and 2 are stupid, so all that's left is 3 and 4. Both are true. He probably watched TV alone, so he said it to himself and to the TV. But the reason why he said it was to criticize the anouncer and the TV program, so I couldn't decide between 3 and 4.
I chose 4 in the end, but 3 is correct.
Questions like that seem to be quite common and I was wondering if there is some kind of trick to get things correct when it's a 50:50 decision. Am I missing something??
N2 - Reading - pm215 - 2010-10-08
chochajin Wrote:4 筆者がテレビ局に対して行った。Your typo for 言った?
Anyway, I think they just want to see if you know that it was just the guy expressing his feelings rather than actually talking to anybody.
N2 - Reading - -kiki- - 2010-10-08
chochajin Wrote:After reading the question, I wanted to say to the "anouncer".Haha, now this is interesting. I agree, I thought he said to the announcer, too. (I'm a native Japanese speaker.)
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But the reason why he said it was to criticize the anouncer and the TV program, so I couldn't decide between 3 and 4.
I chose 4 in the end, but 3 is correct.
Like you said, both "to himself" and "to the announcer" are true, but one thing's for sure - This question is so dumb. Just nonsense.
N2 - Reading - EratiK - 2010-10-08
ナイス アヴァタル!!! :wub:
N2 - Reading - -kiki- - 2010-10-08
Nice avatar? ナイス アバター？ Who, me?
Thanks!
N2 - Reading - mezbup - 2010-10-08
I would have said the announcer too. Mainly because I yell stuff at the tv when I watch the news and I feel like I'm saying it to them and not myself cos I already know how I feel so there's no need to tell myself but I want to tell them!
In short, yeah the correct answer makes sense but who's to say what's correct??
N2 - Reading - EratiK - 2010-10-08
-kiki- Wrote:ナイス アバターYeah, my katakana still sucks... Thanks for for the input...
N2 - Reading - chochajin - 2010-10-08
pm215 Wrote:Argh, yah, sorry! :/chochajin Wrote:4 筆者がテレビ局に対して行った。Your typo for 言った?
mezbup Wrote:In short, yeah the correct answer makes sense but who's to say what's correct??Probably the answer that most people got correct will be the correct answer?!? For the new testing format they haven't decided on many things yet anyways. So confusing
N2 - Reading - yudantaiteki - 2010-10-08
IMO that question is pretty poorly constructed; although 4 can't be right because of the 局 -- #4 doesn't say that he's saying it to the television, but to the "television station", which doesn't really make any sense.