5.3 資料聴読解問題: Schedules, Advertisements, and Quotations

5.3 資料聴読解問題: Schedules, Advertisements, and Quotations

This sub-section uses the same audio-once format as 5.2, but the document is now a schedule, advertisement, or quotation — a working business document rather than a chart. The skill shifts from reading trends to reading rows and fields and tracking which field the dialogue is actually changing.

Schedule Documents (会議日程, 予約表, ガントチャート, タイムテーブル)

Schedules come in three common shapes: a 会議日程表 (date × time × room × person-in-charge), a 予約表 (resource × time slot with occupancy markers), and an イベントタイムテーブル (a sequential list of program items with start/stop times).

Pre-read order:

1. Read the row and column headers first — date, time, room, person in charge, agenda item.
2. Note any 重複 (double-booking) or 空き (open slots) — these are the most common targets.
3. Note the period (one week? one day? one month?) and whether AM/PM is split.

Common questions:

• 「〇〇の会議はいつですか」 → locate the row whose 議題 column matches, read the date.
• 「空いている会議室はどれですか」 → cross out rooms with any booking in the target time slot.
• 「重複している予定はどれですか」 → find two rows sharing the same person or room in the same slot.

Trap patterns:

• AM/PM swap — an option quotes the correct person and room but moves the slot to the opposite half-day.
• Conflict trap — an option names a room that is free at 10:00 but the meeting must be at 14:00, when the room is taken.
• Wrong-week trap — for a two-week schedule, the option quotes the right weekday but in the wrong week.

Advertisements (商品広告, 求人広告, サービス宣伝, セール告知)

Advertisements ask you to identify who is advertising and to whom. The official sample shows a single-page advertisement listing 「激安DM」, 「2ツ折」, 「ペラ」, 「封書」, 「ハガキ」, 「雑誌」, 「求人誌」 with prices per unit.

Pre-read order:

1. Read the headline (キャッチコピー) — this usually states the selling category.
2. Read the list of services or products with prices.
3. Identify the target audience from phrases like 「御社の」「〇〇様向け」「新規ご予約の方に」.
4. Identify the call to action — 「今すぐご注文」, 「まずは無料見積り」, 「お問い合わせは」.

Common questions:

• 「次の広告は、どんな企業が出したものですか」 → identify the advertiser's industry from the product list.
• 「対象顧客は誰ですか」 → read the headline's addressee.
• 「キャッチコピーは何を強調していますか」 → identify the emphasized benefit (price, speed, quality, customization).

Worked Example: 激安DM Printing-Company Advertisement

The ad lists prices for 「激安DM」, 「2ツ折」, 「ペラ」, 「封書」, 「ハガキ」, 「雑誌」, 「求人誌」. None of these are services a mail carrier, a magazine publisher, or a telephone company would sell as a package. They are all printing-and-direct-mail products.

Question: 「次の広告は、どんな企業が出したものですか。」

Reasoning:

1. Every line item is something a printer produces: 折物 (2ツ折, ペラ), 封書, ハガキ, 雑誌, 求人誌. The unifying category is 印刷物.
2. 「激安DM」 is a printing-company pitch for direct-mail services, not a mail carrier's pitch (the carrier delivers; the printer prints).
3. Trap options: 郵便局 (delivers but does not sell 折物 printing as a package), 雑誌社 (publishes its own magazine but does not sell 求人誌 printing as a service), 電話会社 (irrelevant to the listed items).

Correct: 印刷会社.

Quotations / 見積書

A 見積書 typically shows these rows:

Pre-read order: scan every field name in the left column before the audio. During the audio, tag the field being discussed. The official sample has four fields — 納期, 引渡条件, 支払条件, 総額 — and the dialogue ends with the speaker saying they will adjust 支払条件 to make the deal acceptable to the customer.

Worked Example: 見積書 with Four Fields

The 見積書 shows 納期, 引渡条件, 支払条件, 総額. The audio is a phone call between an 営業担当者 (sales rep) and a customer who is hesitating. The rep says the customer wants a longer payment window; the rep proposes changing only 支払条件, leaving 納期, 引渡条件, and 総額 as written.

Question: 「営業担当者は見積書のどの項目を変更しますか。」

Reasoning:

1. The rep explicitly names the customer's concern: payment timing.
2. The rep proposes to update the row that addresses payment timing — 支払条件.
3. Trap options: 納期 (mentioned but not changed), 引渡条件 (not mentioned), 総額 (the rep explicitly says the price stays).

Correct: 支払条件.

Common Vocabulary

Strategy Checklist

1. Pre-read the row and column headers; flag any 重複 or 空き.
2. For ads, identify the unifying product category — that names the advertiser.
3. For quotations, list every field name before the audio; during the audio, tag the field being changed.
4. Eliminate options that name a field or service mentioned but not changed, that swap AM/PM or week, or that name a related-but-wrong advertiser.