「敷居が高い」は“高級店”の言葉じゃなかった。本来の意味を選ぶ人は11年で42.1％→29.0％に

Q1. What does the phrase mean in the dictionary?

1. AA restaurant is too expensive.
2. BYou feel bad about visiting someone you did wrong to.
3. CA door is too high to open.
4. DA person is very tall.

It means you feel bad about visiting a person because you did something wrong to them とあるので B。

Q2. What percent of people chose the restaurant meaning?

1. A29.0 percent
2. B20.2 percent
3. C56.4 percent
4. D100 percent

56.4 percent of people chose the restaurant meaning とあるので C。29.0％は昔からの意味。

Q3. Which meaning did fewer people choose?

1. AThe old meaning
2. BThe restaurant meaning
3. CBoth meanings got the same number.
4. DNobody chose any meaning.

Only 29.0 percent chose the old meaning とあるので A。

Q1. What is a "shikii"?

1. AA kind of restaurant
2. BA wooden bar at the bottom of a doorway
3. CA word for a very tall person
4. DA Japanese dictionary

A "shikii" is the wooden bar at the bottom of a doorway とあるので B。

Q2. How did the share of people choosing the original meaning change?

1. AIt rose from 29.0 to 42.1 percent.
2. BIt stayed the same.
3. CIt fell from 42.1 to 29.0 percent.
4. DIt fell to zero.

only 29.0 percent chose the original meaning, down from 42.1 percent eleven years earlier とあるので C。

Q3. What can we learn about people in their 20s?

1. AVery few of them chose the original meaning.
2. BMost of them chose the original meaning.
3. CThey were not included in the survey.
4. DThey never go to restaurants.

Among people in their 20s, the figure was just 8.5 percent とあるので A。

Q1. According to dictionaries, why is it hard to visit someone when "the threshold is high"?

1. ABecause their house is too expensive
2. BBecause you have treated them badly or feel ashamed
3. CBecause the door is broken
4. DBecause they live too far away

because you have treated them badly or feel ashamed とあるので B。

Q2. What does the passage say about people aged 70 or older?

1. AAll of them chose the original meaning.
2. BNone of them answered the survey.
3. CThe two meanings were chosen by almost the same share of them.
4. DMost of them chose the price meaning.

the two meanings were almost tied: 40.3 percent chose the original one and 38.6 percent the new one とあるので C。

Q3. What can be inferred about the English phrase "a high pain threshold"?

1. AIt is not a good translation of the Japanese idiom.
2. BIt means a place is too expensive.
3. CIt means you feel ashamed to visit someone.
4. DIt comes from the Japanese idiom.

There, though, the threshold is the point where you start to feel pain. It says nothing about feeling ashamed. とあるので、日本語の慣用句の訳には合わないと推測できる。A。