Reading
Verify content details
Seemile Easy TOPIK I · reading · pp. 97–103
Understand the task
A notice, timetable or short message contains checkable details. First determine whether the instruction asks for the matching statement or the non-matching one. The book uses practical texts such as meeting notices and tickets to show how a small change in morning/evening, price or date can reverse an answer.
Read the question to see whether it asks for a match. Check each option against the times, dates and conditions in the text.
How to solve this question type
- Mark the instruction: 같은 것 / 맞는 것 asks for a match; 맞지 않는 것 asks for a mismatch.
- Organize details into time, place, people, cost and conditions. Compare one claim at a time.
- Reject invented information as well as direct contradictions. A detail may be plausible in real life but absent from the text.
Grammar and expressions
N부터 N까지
Define the beginning and end of a period. Do not confuse one endpoint with the whole interval.
아홉 시부터 여섯 시까지 엽니다.
It is open from nine to six.
N에만
Restrict a statement to a particular time or place.
일요일에만 쉽니다.
It is closed only on Sundays.
A/V-지 않다
Make a negative statement. Check that an answer has not dropped the negative.
월요일에는 열지 않습니다.
It does not open on Mondays.
Vocabulary for this type
- 오전
- a.m. or morning
- 오후
- p.m. or afternoon
- 문을 열다
- to open
- 문을 닫다
- to close
- 무료
- free of charge
- 모임
- meeting or gathering
A worked example
축구 모임: 금요일 저녁 6시, 학교 운동장. → ‘모임은 오전에 있습니다’ does not match.
Football meeting: Friday at 6 p.m., school sports field. → ‘The meeting is in the morning’ is false.
- 저녁 6시 is in the evening, not the morning.
- The day and place may be correct in the other options; evaluate each independently.
- A non-matching question rewards identifying the one false detail, not choosing a true detail you recognize first.
Try it yourself
Practice 1
도서관은 오전 아홉 시에 문을 엽니다. 일요일에는 쉽니다.
The library opens at 9 a.m. It is closed on Sundays.
Which statement matches the notice?
- 오전 아홉 시에 문을 엽니다.
- 일요일에도 문을 엽니다.
- 오후 아홉 시에 문을 엽니다.
- 아침에는 책을 빌릴 수 없습니다.
Answer and explanation
1. 오전 아홉 시에 문을 엽니다.
The first sentence gives the opening time. The library is closed on Sundays.
- This repeats the stated 9 a.m. opening time.
- It contradicts 일요일에는 쉽니다.
- It changes 오전 to 오후, moving the opening time by twelve hours.
- The notice does not ban borrowing books in the morning.
Review your reasoning
- Option 1: This repeats the stated 9 a.m. opening time.
- Option 2: It contradicts 일요일에는 쉽니다.
- Option 3: It changes 오전 to 오후, moving the opening time by twelve hours.
- Option 4: The notice does not ban borrowing books in the morning.
Try the question again with the explanation closed. Identify the exact phrase that supports the answer, then explain which detail makes each other option unsuitable.