Vocabulary consisting only from characters you are able to read
上り
のぼり
(1)ascent, climbing, ascending (path), climb, (2)up-train (e.g. going to Tokyo), (n,adj-no) (3)northward (towards Tokyo) jlpt3
耳にする
みみにする
to hear, to hear by chance, to hear by accident, to catch (the sound)suru
先
さき
the future, forward, priority, precedence, former, previous, old, latejlpt5, toki