Gaimen Kirikae written test practice questions (50-question format)

Chapter 4: Before driving a car or a general moped

Questions 31–40

31. When counting against the seating capacity, three children under 12 are counted as two people.
    乗車定員を数えるとき、12歳未満の子供は、３人を２人として計算する。
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    ○ True

    Small children take up less room than adults, so three of them count as two. It does not mean any number of children may be carried: after the conversion the total must still fit inside the capacity.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「12歳未満の子供は、３人を２人として計算します。」

32. When the minimum number of people needed to watch over cargo ride in the bed of a goods vehicle, you may exceed the seating capacity without the departure-point police chief's permission.
    貨物自動車の荷台に、荷物の見張りのため必要最少限度の人を乗せるときは、出発地の警察署長の許可を受けていなくても、乗車定員を超えて人を乗せることが認められる。
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    ○ True

    Carrying more people than the seating capacity is forbidden as a rule, but it is allowed as an exception if either condition is met: (1) the extra people are the minimum needed to watch over the cargo, or (2) the departure-point police chief has given permission. These are two separate, independent conditions, so watching over cargo alone is enough without any permission.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「また、定められた乗車定員（運転者を含みます。）や積載の制限を超えて、人を乗車させたり、物を積んだりしてはいけません。」

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「１の場合であつても、荷物の見張りのため必要最少限度の人を乗せるときや出発地の警察署長の許可を受けたときは別です。」

33. For an ordinary car with an engine displacement of 660 cc or less, the height limit for a load is 2.5 metres from the ground.
    総排気量660cc以下の普通自動車に荷物を積むときの高さの制限は、地上から2.5メートルである。
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    ○ True

    The height limit is 3.8 metres as a rule, but the exception follows immediately after that figure: three-wheeled ordinary cars and ordinary cars of 660 cc or less (kei cars) are limited to 2.5 metres. Remember only the 3.8 and you will get a kei car wrong.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「高さ…地上３.８メートル（三輪の普通自動車と総排気量660cc以下の普通自動車にあつては２.５メートル、その他の自動車で公安委員会が定めるものにあつては３.８メートル以上４.１メートルを超えない範囲内において公安委員会が定める高さ）」

34. Carrying the minimum number of people needed to watch over a load in a place that is not a seat is never permitted.
    荷物の見張りのために必要最少限度の人を座席でないところに乗せることは、どのような場合にも認められていない。
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    × False

    The ban on carrying people outside the seats has a continuation: it does not apply when the minimum number needed to watch the load are carried, or when the chief of the police station at the point of departure has given permission. What is allowed is the *minimum* necessary — there is no margin for extra people.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「座席でないところに人を乗せたり、荷台や座席でないところに荷物を積んだりしてはいけません。」

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「１の場合であつても、荷物の見張りのため必要最少限度の人を乗せるときや出発地の警察署長の許可を受けたときは別です。」

35. If a load falls off or is scattered, you must promptly take the necessary steps, such as removing it from the road.
    荷物が転落したり飛散したりしてしまったときは、速やかにその物を取り除くなど必要な措置を採らなければならない。
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    ○ True

    A load lying in the road is an obstacle following traffic cannot avoid. Besides the duty to secure the load with ropes and sheets in the first place, the driver is required to act once it has come off. When clearing it, keep a close watch on the traffic behind.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.4 "乗車と積載"

    「また、荷物が転落、飛散してしまつたときは、速やかにその物を除去するなど必要な措置を採らなければなりません。」

36. At high speed your eyesight declines, and distant objects in particular become hard to see.
    高速になると視力が低下し、特に遠くのものが見えにくくなる。
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    × False

    It is near objects that become hard to see. As speed rises your gaze naturally moves further ahead, and things close by — which sweep past the eye fastest — are the ones you stop taking in.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.5 "安全運転に必要な知識など"

    「また、高速になると視力が低下し、特に近くのものが見えにくくなるので、注意しましよう。」

37. Fatigue shows up most strongly in the eyes, and as it deepens you miss things and misread them more often.
    疲労の影響は目に最も強く現われ、疲労の度が高まるにつれて見落としや見間違いが多くなる。
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    ○ True

    When you tire, the eyes are the first thing to go. The deeper the fatigue, the more often you miss or misread things, so be careful. That is why rest is needed on a long stretch of driving.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.5 "安全運転に必要な知識など"

    「疲労の影響は、目に最も強く現われます。疲労の度が高まるにつれて、見落としや見間違いが多くなるので気を付けましよう。」

38. A sudden change in brightness makes your eyesight drop sharply for a moment, so slow down before entering a tunnel and when coming out of one.
    明るさが急に変わると視力は一時急激に低下するので、トンネルに入る前やトンネルから出るときは速度を落とす。
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    ○ True

    The eye needs time to adapt to a change in brightness, and during that time you are effectively not seeing. Slowing down shortens the distance covered while blind, so you do not close on something before your eyes catch up.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.5 "安全運転に必要な知識など"

    「明るさが急に変わると、視力は、一時急激に低下します。トンネルに入る前やトンネルから出るときは速度を落としましよう。」

39. At night you should look straight at oncoming headlights to judge the distance to the other vehicle.
    夜間は、対向車のライトを直視して相手との距離をつかむようにするとよい。
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    × False

    You should not look directly at oncoming headlights. Staring into a strong light makes the eye adapt to it, and for a while after it has passed you cannot see into the dark — which is exactly where pedestrians are.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.5 "安全運転に必要な知識など"

    「また、夜間は対向車のライトを直視しないようにしましよう。」

40. A moving vehicle tends to keep going even when the clutch is disengaged, so it does not stop at once.
    走行中の車は、クラッチを切っても走り続けようとする性質があるため、すぐには止まらない。
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    ○ True

    Cutting off the engine's drive does not stop a moving car from wanting to keep moving. The only way to stop it is to brake, halt the wheels and use the friction between tyre and road.

    Source: Rules for Road Use, Ch.4 Sec.5 "安全運転に必要な知識など"

    「走行中の車は、クラッチを切つても走り続けようとする性質があるため、すぐには止まりません。」