「煮詰まる」の本来の意味は“結論が近い”。なのに辞書の古い例は“行き詰まる”が先だった

Q1. What is the passage mainly about?

1. AHow to cook soup for a meeting
2. BA word that people of different ages understand differently
3. CWhy meetings in Japan are long
4. DA new word made in 2014

「煮詰まる」の意味の受け取り方が年代で分かれる話なので B。

Q2. What percent of people in their 30s chose the dictionary meaning?

1. A70 percent
2. B50 percent
3. C60 percent
4. D31.5 percent

In their 30s, only 31.5 percent did. とあるので D。70％は60代の数字。

Q3. In the passage, what does "stuck" mean?

1. AUnable to move forward
2. BVery happy
3. CAlmost finished
4. DVery hungry

We are stuck は「行き詰まった（先に進めない）」の意味なので A。

Q1. According to dictionaries, what does it mean when a discussion has "nitsumatta"?

1. AThe discussion has failed.
2. BEveryone is angry.
3. CIdeas have been shared and a decision is near.
4. DThe meeting has just started.

it means that everyone has shared their ideas and a decision is near とあるので C。

Q2. What percent of people said the word meant the talks were stuck?

1. A51.8 percent
2. B40.0 percent
3. C20.0 percent
4. D61.5 percent

40.0 percent said it meant the talks were stuck とあるので B。51.8％は辞書の意味を選んだ人。

Q3. What can be inferred from the survey?

1. AOnly teenagers use the word.
2. BOlder people never use the word.
3. CThe word has only one meaning today.
4. DA boss in his 60s and a worker in her 20s might understand the word differently.

40代以下では「行き詰まった」、50代以上では辞書の意味を選ぶ人が多いので、年代のちがう2人で受け取り方がずれる可能性がある。D。

Q1. What is the main idea of the passage?

1. AJapanese dictionaries have stopped listing the word.
2. BThe word is understood in two ways, and its history is less simple than many think.
3. CThe word was first used about meetings in 1950.
4. DMost people in their 60s think the talks are stuck.

年代で受け取り方が分かれることと、辞書の用例の順番の意外さを述べているので B。

Q2. Which example does the Nihon Kokugo Daijiten give as the oldest for the "conclusion" sense?

1. AA 1950 story by Nagai Tatsuo
2. BA 2014 survey
3. CA 1964 detective novel
4. DA cookbook from 2000

a 1964 detective novel as its oldest example of the "conclusion" sense とあるので C。

Q3. Why does the writer point out that the 1950 sentence is about a war?

1. ATo suggest that the old example does not prove the "deadlock" sense was common in meetings
2. BTo show that the word was only used by soldiers
3. CTo prove that the dictionary is wrong
4. DTo explain why people in their 60s prefer the dictionary sense

Those dates only show the earliest examples ... the 1950 sentence is about a war, not a meeting と、古い例だけでは会議での「行き詰まる」の広まりは言えないと示しているので A。