Section 1 · Questions 1–10 · joining a car-sharing scheme
🎧 Recording — Section 1 2 speakers · everyday conversation
A man phones a neighbourhood car-sharing scheme to become a member.
Questions 1–5 · Form completion
Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Westfield Car Share — Membership Application

  1. 1Applicant: Callum

    Ferraby. Lauren guesses "F, A, R, R…?" — Callum: "No, everyone writes it like that. It's F, E, R, R, A, B, Y." Trap: the half-spelling FARR… is the receptionist's wrong guess; only the full spelling counts.🔑 বাংলায়: Lauren প্রথমে ভুল বানান (F-A-R-R) ধরে নেন; Callum ঠিক করে দেন — সঠিক বানান F-E-R-R-A-B-Y। প্রতিটি letter আলাদা করে শুনে লিখুন।

  2. 2Driving experience: years (no penalty points)

    11. "I've been driving for eleven years now, with a completely clean record." (clean record = no penalty points) Trap: two other numbers come first — the minimum age (21) and the insurers' minimum (three years) are rules, not his experience.🔑 বাংলায়: 21 আর 3 হলো insurance-এর নিয়ম; Callum নিজে 11 বছর ধরে গাড়ি চালাচ্ছেন — সেটাই answer।

  3. 3Main purpose: regular outings with his

    grandmother. "I assumed I'd still need one for the big weekly shop, but I have my groceries delivered now … The real problem is my grandmother … I like to take her out for lunch every couple of weeks." Trap: shopping is mentioned first and then ruled out.🔑 বাংলায়: সাপ্তাহিক shopping-এর কথা আগে আসে কিন্তু বাতিল হয় (groceries এখন delivery হয়); আসল কারণ দাদি/নানিকে নিয়ে বেড়াতে যাওয়া।

  4. 4Monthly membership cost: £

    8. "The Occasional plan costs eight pounds a month, and the Regular plan is fifteen pounds a month …" — Callum: "I'll go for the one with the lower monthly fee." Trap: he never names the plan or the price — you must connect "lower monthly fee" back to £8. The last number said (fifteen) is wrong.🔑 বাংলায়: Callum plan-এর নাম বলেন না, শুধু বলেন "কম monthly fee-এরটা" — অর্থাৎ £8। শেষে শোনা 15 হলো trap।

  5. 5Introductory session: Wednesday June, 7 p.m.

    11th. "usually on the first Saturday … which in June would be the seventh, but there's a craft fair in the hall that weekend, so … we've moved it to a Wednesday evening, the eleventh." Trap: the 7th is the normal Saturday date, cancelled because of the craft fair.🔑 বাংলায়: সাধারণত session হয় মাসের প্রথম শনিবার (7 তারিখ), কিন্তু craft fair-এর কারণে এবার বুধবার 11 তারিখে সরানো হয়েছে।
Questions 6–10 · Note completion
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Using the cars

  1. 6Reservations: at present, best made through the

    website. "usually that's what we'd recommend. But it's being redesigned at the moment and it keeps freezing, so for the next couple of months I'd make all your bookings on the website." Trap: Callum suggests the app, and Lauren even says it is "usually" recommended — but not now.🔑 বাংলায়: App সাধারণত recommended, কিন্তু এখন redesign চলছে ও freeze করে — তাই আপাতত website-এ booking করতে হবে। "at present" = "for the next couple of months"।

  2. 7Entry to vehicle: place your on the reader by the windscreen

    card. "We used to leave keys in a little locked box with a code … Now, after the session, we post you a membership card. You just hold it against the reader in the corner of the windscreen." Trap: key, box and code all belong to the old system.🔑 বাংলায়: আগে key box আর code ছিল (পুরনো নিয়ম); এখন membership card windscreen-এর reader-এ ধরলেই দরজা খোলে।

  3. 8Closest vehicle: parked outside a local

    bakery. "your nearest one's a small blue hatchback, in a reserved bay outside the bakery on Mill Lane. Some of the older leaflets say it's behind the library, but we moved it in the spring." Trap: the library is the OLD location — and here the right answer comes first, the wrong one second.🔑 বাংলায়: সঠিক উত্তর (bakery) আগে বলা হয়, পরে আসে পুরনো জায়গা library — সবসময় শেষে শোনা শব্দটাই answer নয়।

  4. 9Fuel: return the car with the tank at least one full

    quarter. "never bring a car back with less than a quarter of a tank. Some schemes insist on half, but we think that's a bit much." Trap: "half" is what OTHER schemes require, and it is said after the answer.🔑 বাংলায়: "less than a quarter দিয়ে ফেরত দেবেন না" = অন্তত এক quarter থাকতে হবে। "half" অন্য scheme-এর নিয়ম।

  5. 10Breakdowns / urgent help (24 hours): 0300

    736 410. "During office hours, just ring us here, on 01632 552 970. But for breakdowns, or anything urgent at night or at weekends, there's a twenty-four-hour line. That's oh three hundred, seven three six, four one oh." Trap: the office number is given first and is only for office hours.🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথম নম্বরটা শুধু office hours-এর জন্য; breakdown-এর 24-hour line হলো 0300 736 410। "oh" মানে শূন্য (0)।
Section 2 · Questions 11–20 · a radio talk about a new transport museum
🎧 Recording — Section 2 1 speaker · radio talk
A local radio presenter describes a new transport museum in a former tram depot.
Questions 11–15 · Plan labelling
Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 11–15.
tram gallery cinema WC side door P car park A B C D E F G H N E W S MAIN ENTRANCE · Station Street Kelbridge Transport Museum — ground floor plan
  1. 11Ticket desk
    F. "You might expect to queue for tickets somewhere in the middle of the hall, but in fact the ticket desk is immediately on your right as you come through those doors." Coming in from the south and facing north, your right is east = F. Trap: B is just as close to the doors, but on the left; the middle of the hall (the tram gallery) is explicitly wrong.🔑 বাংলায়: দক্ষিণের main door দিয়ে ঢুকে উত্তর দিকে মুখ করলে ডান দিক = পূর্ব, তাই F। B-ও দরজার পাশে, কিন্তু বাঁ দিকে।
  2. 12Workshop viewing gallery
    A. "On the left of it [the cinema], as you face it, there's a little café … the workshop viewing gallery, which is beyond the cinema and over to the right, tucked into the north-east corner." Trap: E, to the left of the cinema, is the café.🔑 বাংলায়: Cinema-র বাঁয়ে (E) café; cinema পেরিয়ে ডানে, north-east কোণে workshop viewing gallery = A।
  3. 13Children's play area
    H. "turn left from the main doors and follow the aisle that runs up beside the western wall. About halfway along, against that wall, there's a play area for the under-sevens … A little further on is the cloakroom, right next to the toilets." Trap: D, further north beside the WC, is the cloakroom; B is on the left but right by the doors, not halfway along.🔑 বাংলায়: পশ্চিমের দেয়াল ধরে অর্ধেক পথ গেলে play area = H। আরও সামনে toilet-এর পাশে D হলো cloakroom।
  4. 14Archive room
    G. "you'll use the side door. Turn right as you come through that door, and you're in the archive room … On your left there's an education room." Entering from the east you face WEST, so your right is north = G. Trap: C (south of the door) is the education room — students who think "right = east" pick C.🔑 বাংলায়: পূর্বের side door দিয়ে ঢুকলে আপনি পশ্চিমমুখী — তখন ডান দিক = উত্তর, তাই G। বাঁয়ে (দক্ষিণে) C হলো education room।
  5. 15Shop
    B. "It's beside the main doors, on your right as you go out, so you can pick up a souvenir on your way home." Going OUT you face south, so your right is west = B. Trap: F is also beside the main doors, but it is on your right as you come IN (the ticket desk).🔑 বাংলায়: বের হওয়ার সময় আপনি দক্ষিণমুখী, তখন ডান দিক = পশ্চিম, তাই B। F ঢোকার সময় ডানে — ওটা ticket desk।
Questions 16–20 · Matching
What does the speaker say about each of the following exhibits? Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–G, next to Questions 16–20.
Comments
A   visitors must book a time beforehand
B   was once put to a completely different use
C   has a minimum age limit
D   was paid for by members of the public
E   can be visited on just one day each week
F   was created by unpaid workers
G   is going to be relocated within the building
  1. 16the horse tram
    B. "When it was withdrawn, its wheels were taken off, and for nearly sixty years it served as a hen house on a farm outside town." (a hen house = a completely different use) Trap: D — "People assume the museum must have paid a fortune for it, but in fact the farmer's family simply handed it over" (nobody paid for it).🔑 বাংলায়: প্রায় 60 বছর tram-টি খামারে মুরগির ঘর (hen house) হিসেবে ব্যবহার হয়েছে = B। কেউ টাকা দেয়নি, পরিবার বিনামূল্যে দিয়ে দেয় — তাই D নয়।
  2. 17the driving simulator
    C. "the brake lever is surprisingly heavy, so nobody under the age of twelve is allowed to have a go." Trap: A — "You don't need to reserve a slot; you just join the queue."🔑 বাংলায়: 12 বছরের কম বয়সীরা চালাতে পারবে না = minimum age = C। Booking লাগে না, শুধু queue — তাই A নয়।
  3. 18Tram 46
    D. "When it came up for sale ten years ago, the local paper launched an appeal, and readers raised the whole price in under four months." Trap: F — "The museum's volunteers had hoped to restore it themselves, but … the job went to a specialist firm."🔑 বাংলায়: স্থানীয় পত্রিকার appeal-এ পাঠকরা পুরো দাম তুলে দেন = জনগণের টাকায় কেনা = D। Volunteer-রা নিজেরা restore করতে চেয়েছিলেন, কিন্তু কাজ গেছে specialist firm-এ — তাই F নয়।
  4. 19the model of the town centre
    F. "It took members of the museum's model club twelve years to build, and not one of them was paid a penny." Trap: G — "There was talk of moving it upstairs … but it's staying exactly where it is."🔑 বাংলায়: Model club-এর সদস্যরা 12 বছর ধরে বিনা পারিশ্রমিকে বানিয়েছেন = unpaid workers = F। ওপরতলায় সরানোর কথা হয়েছিল, কিন্তু সরানো হচ্ছে না — তাই G নয়।
  5. 20the clock tower
    E. "a guide has to take each group up, so the tower is only open on Saturdays." Trap: C — there are "a hundred and twenty steps, but children are welcome as long as an adult goes up with them" (no age limit).🔑 বাংলায়: Tower শুধু শনিবার খোলা = সপ্তাহে একদিন = E। 120টা সিঁড়ি থাকলেও বড়দের সাথে শিশুরা যেতে পারে — তাই C নয়।
Section 3 · Questions 21–30 · a research project on left-handedness
🎧 Recording — Section 3 3 speakers · academic discussion
Two psychology students, Toby and Freya, meet their tutor, Dr Harper.
Questions 21–24 · Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

  1. 21What led the students to choose their topic?

    C. Freya: "I read a magazine article claiming that left-handed people die years earlier … and it sounded too neat to be true." Toby: "Freya persuaded me that the life-expectancy question had more to it." Trap: B — the topic "wasn't on the list I gave out"; A — sport was only Toby's first interest, and he was talked out of it.🔑 বাংলায়: Freya একটা magazine article-এর দাবি বিশ্বাস করেননি (too neat to be true) — সেখান থেকেই topic। Toby-র sport-এর আগ্রহ ছিল, কিন্তু Freya তাঁকে রাজি করান।

  2. 22What does Dr Harper say about the 1991 study?

    B. "The older people in that sample grew up when schools routinely made children write with their right hand, so far fewer of them were recorded as left-handed … many had simply been converted." Trap: A is Toby's first reaction, which she rejects ("their method was reasonable for its time"); C — "It's been re-examined many times."🔑 বাংলায়: সমস্যা data সংগ্রহে নয়, interpretation-এ — বয়স্কদের ছোটবেলায় স্কুলে জোর করে ডান হাতে লেখানো হতো। A হলো Toby-র ভুল ধারণা; C ভুল কারণ study-টি বহুবার পরীক্ষা করা হয়েছে।

  3. 23What problem arose with the pilot survey?

    A. "We just asked, are you left-handed or right-handed, and loads of people emailed to say they couldn't answer it. They write with one hand, but they throw a ball with the other." Trap: B — "over two hundred replies in a week, so numbers weren't the issue"; C — Toby decided a gender comparison "hardly seemed worth it", not that it was difficult.🔑 বাংলায়: অনেকে লেখে এক হাতে, বল ছোড়ে অন্য হাতে — তাই "left না right" প্রশ্নের উত্তর দিতে পারেনি = A। Reply যথেষ্ট ছিল (B নয়)।

  4. 24How do they decide to change the survey?

    C. Dr Harper: "There's a well-established questionnaire, the Edinburgh Inventory, which asks about ten everyday activities … The established one lets you compare your results with decades of published work." Toby: "That's persuasive." Trap: A is Toby's idea, rejected by Freya and the tutor; B is Freya's idea, rejected because it can't be checked online.🔑 বাংলায়: Toby-র interview আর Freya-র timed writing — দুটোই বাতিল। শেষে সবাই একমত হন প্রতিষ্ঠিত Edinburgh questionnaire (দৈনন্দিন 10টি কাজ) ব্যবহারে।
Questions 25–26 · Multiple Choice (two answers)
Choose TWO letters, A–E.

  1. 25Which TWO subjects do the students agree to put in their introduction?

    A and C (either order). A: "Definitely the work on babies before they're born: the scans showing that most of them already prefer sucking the right thumb at around fifteen weeks." C: Dr Harper expects "the historical picture … the proportion of people writing left-handed rose through the twentieth century", and Freya: "That has to go in." Trap: B — "the evidence is thin … I'd steer clear of it"; D — "Save that for your discussion"; E — "We'll leave sport out."🔑 বাংলায়: Introduction-এ যাবে (A) জন্মের আগে শিশুর আচরণ (thumb-sucking scan) আর (C) বিংশ শতাব্দীতে left-hander-এর হার বাড়া। Creativity, brain ও sport — তিনটিই বাদ।

  2. 26Which TWO subjects do the students agree to put in their introduction?

    A and C (either order) — see Question 25. The brain topic (D) is not rejected outright, only moved to the discussion section, so it does not belong in the introduction.🔑 বাংলায়: দুটি answer — A ও C, যেকোনো ক্রমে। D (brain) introduction-এ নয়, discussion-এ রাখার কথা বলা হয়েছে।
Questions 27–30 · Matching
What do the students report about each of the following items? Choose FOUR answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–F, next to Questions 27–30.
Findings
A   was the most frequent complaint
B   most left-handers adapted to the standard version as children
C   the left-handed version is considerably more expensive
D   causes fewer difficulties because of changes in design
E   respondents want the university to replace them
F   the left-handed version is hard to get hold of
  1. 27scissors
    B. "Most said they'd taught themselves to cut with ordinary ones as children and never thought about it again." Trap: A — scissors were EXPECTED to be the big complaint, "but hardly anyone mentioned them"; C — "it isn't about price".🔑 বাংলায়: ছোটবেলাতেই সাধারণ কাঁচি ব্যবহার শিখে নিয়েছে = B। দাম সমস্যা নয় (C নয়), বড় অভিযোগও নয় (A নয়)।
  2. 28computer mice
    D. "A couple of the mature students had struggled with the mouse years ago, but nobody under thirty brought it up. Most mice are symmetrical now, and lots of people use a touchpad anyway." Trap: the older students' struggle is in the past — the point is that design has removed the problem.🔑 বাংলায়: এখন বেশিরভাগ mouse symmetrical এবং অনেকে touchpad ব্যবহার করে — design বদলে যাওয়ায় সমস্যা কমেছে = D।
  3. 29guitars
    C. "You can find left-handed guitars easily enough online, so availability isn't the issue. It's that they usually cost quite a bit more for the same model." Trap: F — availability is mentioned and then denied.🔑 বাংলায়: Online-এ সহজেই পাওয়া যায় (তাই F নয়), কিন্তু একই model-এর দাম অনেক বেশি = C।
  4. 30lecture-theatre seats
    A. Dr Harper: "So what came up most often overall?" Freya: "By a long way, the seats in the lecture theatres … Nearly a third of the left-handers raised it without being asked." Trap: E — it is TOBY who wants a recommendation to the university (not the respondents), and the tutor rejects it.🔑 বাংলায়: সবচেয়ে বেশি অভিযোগ এসেছে lecture theatre-এর ডান দিকের fold-down desk নিয়ে = A। University-কে recommendation দেওয়ার কথা Toby-র, respondent-দের নয় — তাই E নয়।
Section 4 · Questions 31–40 · a lecture on the red kite
🎧 Recording — Section 4 1 speaker · academic lecture
An environmental science lecture on a bird of prey in Britain.
Questions 31–40 · Note completion
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
The Red Kite in Britain: Decline and Recovery
Medieval period

  1. 31valued in towns for disposing of in the days before street cleaning

    waste. "In an age before any organised street cleaning, kites scavenged scraps of meat and other waste from markets and butchers' yards." Trap: "You might assume that people put up with them because they caught mice" — the lecturer says the accounts from the time "tell a different story".🔑 বাংলায়: Kite-রা বাজারের মাংসের টুকরো ও অন্য waste খেয়ে শহর পরিষ্কার রাখত। ইঁদুর ধরার কারণে সহ্য করা হতো — এই ধারণা ভুল।

  2. 32infamous for taking people's to use as nesting material

    laundry. "sheep's wool and scraps of paper, for example, but what they became notorious for was snatching laundry that had been hung out to dry." (notorious = infamous) Trap: wool and paper were also used, but they were not what made kites notorious — and they are not "people's" belongings.🔑 বাংলায়: বাসায় wool, কাগজও দিত, কিন্তু "কুখ্যাত" (notorious) ছিল শুকাতে দেওয়া laundry (কাপড়) চুরির জন্য।
Decline

  1. 33a law of 1566 officially classed the bird as , and parishes paid for each one killed

    vermin. "A law passed in fifteen sixty-six listed them as vermin, alongside crows and foxes, and parishes handed over a small sum for every dead bird." Trap: the earlier view — "useful scavengers" — is what the law reversed.🔑 বাংলায়: 1566 সালের আইনে kite-কে vermin (ক্ষতিকর প্রাণী) ঘোষণা করা হয়, মারলে টাকা দেওয়া হতো।

  2. 3419th century: most killings carried out by protecting birds bred for sport

    gamekeepers. "Farmers are often blamed … and certainly some did shoot them, but the real damage was done by gamekeepers, whose job was to protect the pheasants and partridges being reared for shooting." Trap: farmers are named first and partly true ("some did"), but they were not the main cause.🔑 বাংলায়: Farmer-দের দোষ দেওয়া হয়, কিছু farmer মেরেছেও — কিন্তু মূল ক্ষতি করেছে shooting estate-এর gamekeeper-রা।

  3. 35early 1900s: greatest danger came from collectors of

    eggs. "Victorian collectors had wanted stuffed specimens … but by the early twentieth century the greater threat by far came from people who collected eggs." Trap: stuffed specimens belong to the earlier, Victorian period.🔑 বাংলায়: Victorian যুগে stuffed পাখি সংগ্রহ হতো, কিন্তু 1900-এর শুরুতে সবচেয়ে বড় বিপদ ছিল ডিম (eggs) সংগ্রহকারীরা।
Survival

  1. 36around 1900: a few breeding pairs survived only in the heart of

    Wales. "the only kites left anywhere in Britain were a handful of pairs in the remote valleys of central Wales." Trap: England and Scotland are named just before — as places where kites had already gone.🔑 বাংলায়: England ও Scotland থেকে kite আগেই হারিয়ে যায়; টিকে ছিল শুধু মধ্য Wales-এ (central = the heart of)।

  2. 37numbers rose slowly, chiefly because the hills offered too little

    food. "biologists suspected inbreeding … but that turned out not to be the main issue … the hill country there simply doesn't provide enough food for kites to rear many chicks." Trap: inbreeding was suspected and genetically confirmed, but it was NOT the main reason.🔑 বাংলায়: Inbreeding সন্দেহ করা হয়েছিল, কিন্তু মূল কারণ নয়; পাহাড়ি এলাকায় যথেষ্ট খাবার (food) ছিল না।
Reintroduction (from 1989)

  1. 38young birds for the Chilterns were imported from

    Spain. "Those released in the Chiltern Hills, north-west of London, came from Spain, while the ones released on the Black Isle, in the north of Scotland, came from Sweden." Trap: Sweden supplied the Scottish site; the Welsh birds were "ruled out".🔑 বাংলায়: Chilterns-এর পাখি এসেছে Spain থেকে; Sweden-এর পাখি গেছে Scotland-এর Black Isle-এ। Wales থেকে নেওয়া হয়নি।

  2. 39every released bird was given coloured wing for identification

    tags. "A small number were fitted with radio transmitters, but every single bird had a coloured tag attached to each wing." Trap: radio transmitters went on only "a small number" — the note says "every".🔑 বাংলায়: Radio transmitter অল্প কিছু পাখিতে; প্রতিটি পাখির দুই ডানায় রঙিন tag ছিল। "every" শব্দটি খেয়াল করুন।
Present day

  1. 40most widespread danger today: eating poisoned

    rats. "Deliberate poisoning … still happens … but the more widespread problem now is accidental … they often feed on rats that have eaten poison put down by farmers or householders." Trap: illegal baits are still a problem but less widespread; collisions with power lines / wind turbines "account for relatively few deaths".🔑 বাংলায়: ইচ্ছাকৃত বিষ দেওয়া এখনও ঘটে, তবে বেশি ব্যাপক সমস্যা হলো বিষ খাওয়া ইঁদুর (rats) খেয়ে kite মারা যাওয়া। Power line/turbine-এ মৃত্যু অল্প।