A woman phones a bakery to order a cake for a party at her workplace.
Questions 1–10 · Form completion
Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Sunrise Bakery — Celebration Cake Order
Customer
1Name: Kate ______
Whitlow. "It's W, H, I, T, L, O, W." Trap: the baker suggests "Whitlock, with C, K at the end?" — she says no; the name ends in O, W. 🔑 বাংলায়: Baker প্রথমে ভুল করে Whitlock (C, K) ধরে নেন — Kate সেটা ঠিক করে বানান করেন W-H-I-T-L-O-W। Section 1-এ বানান অক্ষর ধরে ধরে লিখুন।
2Mobile: ______
07958 214680. "oh seven nine five eight, two one four, six three. No, sorry, I always get the end wrong. It's six eight oh." Trap: the first ending (…63) is self-corrected to 680; the work number is rejected ("no use"). 🔑 বাংলায়: শেষের সংখ্যা প্রথমে "six three" বলে, তারপর নিজেই ঠিক করে "six eight oh" — তাই শেষ অংশ 680। "oh" মানে 0।
Cake
3Flavour: ______
orange. Baker: "there's one we make with fresh orange juice and grated peel" — Kate: "Oh, that's the one." Trap: chocolate (the colleague "has never really liked it"), lemon ("I'd rather it wasn't the same as last time") and coffee ("a bit strong") are all mentioned and dropped. 🔑 বাংলায়: Chocolate, lemon, coffee — তিনটাই বাতিল। Kate রাজি হন orange-এ ("that's the one")। উত্তরটা baker বলেন, Kate শুধু সম্মতি দেন — repeat করেন না।
4Size: enough to serve ______ people
35. "about forty people have said they're coming … Then let's say thirty-five." Trap: forty is the number of guests, not portions; thirty-one is her colleague's years at the library. 🔑 বাংলায়: 40 জন আসবেন, কিন্তু অনেকে অল্প সময় থাকবেন — তাই cake হবে 35 জনের জন্য। 31 হলো চাকরির বছর — distractor।
5Decoration: a small ______ made of icing
bicycle. "I did wonder about a pile of books … she's had enough of books! … Could you do a little bicycle?" Trap: books are suggested first and rejected; a printed photo is also offered. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথমে বইয়ের model ভাবা হয়েছিল (library-র কারণে), পরে বাতিল — সে France-এ cycling করতে যাবে, তাই bicycle।
Extras and delivery
6Also ordered: 24 ______
scones. "our cheese scones are always popular." — "Perfect. Could I have two dozen of those?" (two dozen = 24). Trap: sandwiches (the manager is providing them) and sausage rolls (vegetarian colleagues) are rejected. 🔑 বাংলায়: Sandwich আর sausage roll — দুটোই বাতিল। "Two dozen" মানে 24 — form-এ 24 লেখা, তাই উত্তর scones।
7Date required: ______ November
16. "her last day, which is the seventeenth of November … we've had to move it to the day before." Baker: "So we'll need everything ready for the sixteenth." Trap: the 17th is the original date. 🔑 বাংলায়: Party আগে ছিল 17 তারিখে, কিন্তু একদিন এগিয়ে আনা হয়েছে — তাই 16।
8Driver to arrive at: ______
12.30. "Nine is a bit early … The party doesn't start until three … Could the driver come at half past twelve?" Trap: nine (the van's usual time) is rejected, and three is when the party starts. 🔑 বাংলায়: সকাল 9টা বাতিল (cake গরম ঘরে পড়ে থাকবে), 3টা party শুরুর সময় — delivery চাওয়া হয়েছে 12.30-এ।
9Must not contain: ______
sesame. "The one thing that really matters is sesame. One of our trainees reacts very badly to it." Trap: gluten is "not a problem", and nuts are only disliked — "it isn't an allergy". 🔑 বাংলায়: Gluten সমস্যা না, nuts শুধু কারো পছন্দ না (allergy না) — আসল allergy sesame-এ।
10Deposit paid today: £______
25. "we used to take a quarter of the total as a deposit, but … now it's a flat twenty-five pounds" — Kate: "Can I pay it over the phone now?" Trap: 62 (cake), 18 (the savoury order), 80 (total) and the old "quarter" rule (£20). 🔑 বাংলায়: অনেক সংখ্যা — 62, 18, 80, আর পুরনো নিয়মে এক-চতুর্থাংশ (20)। নতুন নিয়মে deposit নির্দিষ্ট £25।
Section 2 · Questions 11–20 · a tour of a science centre
🎧 Recording — Section 2 1 speaker · welcome talk
A member of staff welcomes visitors to a science and discovery centre.
Questions 11–15 · Plan labelling
Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 11–15.
Horizon Science & Discovery Centre — floor plan
11Gift shop
D. "walk up the main hall to the courtyard and turn right. It's the long room on the east side of the courtyard, next to the stairs." Trap: the door on your right by the entrance (B) still has a "Shop" sign, but "it's now our first-aid room". 🔑 বাংলায়: Entrance-এর ডান দিকের ঘরে এখনো "Shop" লেখা, কিন্তু সেটা এখন first-aid room (B)। আসল shop courtyard-এর পূর্ব দিকে, সিঁড়ির পাশে — D।
12Café
C. "On the opposite side from the shop, so on the west side of the courtyard, is the café." Trap: the room at the end of the short passage north of the fountain (E) "was" the café — now it is the temporary exhibitions room. 🔑 বাংলায়: Shop-এর উল্টো দিকে, মানে courtyard-এর পশ্চিমে — C। Fountain-এর উত্তরের ঘরে (E) আগে café ছিল, এখন নেই।
13Dinosaur gallery
G. "The one on the left, heading north-west, takes you to the dinosaur gallery. It's our largest room, and it takes up that whole corner." Trap: the toilets are also on the west side, "between the dinosaurs and the café". 🔑 বাংলায়: Fountain থেকে বাঁ দিকের (north-west) পথ — কোণার সবচেয়ে বড় ঘর G। Toilet (WC) আছে G আর café-র মাঝখানে।
14Planetarium
F. "The other path curves round to the north-east. At the very end of it is the building with the domed roof, which is where you'll find the planetarium." Trap: the smaller room just before it (H) is a different attraction. 🔑 বাংলায়: North-east-এর পথের একদম শেষে গোল, গম্বুজ-ছাদের building — F।
15Space gallery
H. "just before you get there, on your left, there's a much smaller room … that's the space gallery." Walking north-east, your left is the north-west side of the path = H. Trap: the round building at the end (F) is the planetarium; E is reached by the straight passage, not this path. 🔑 বাংলায়: Planetarium-এ পৌঁছানোর ঠিক আগে, বাঁ দিকের ছোট ঘর — H। উত্তরমুখী সোজা passage-এর ঘর (E) এটা না।
Questions 16–20 · Matching
What does the speaker say about each of the following? Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–G, next to Questions 16–20.
Comments
A There is an additional charge.
B Places must be reserved beforehand.
C It is restricted to organised groups.
D It is temporarily unavailable.
E It has only recently been added.
F It is intended mainly for young children.
G It can be used at no cost.
16the planetarium shows
B. "now you need to get a seat sorted at the information desk before you go over there." Trap: "you could simply turn up and walk in" is the OLD system; F is wrong — the darkness frightens the youngest, so it is "better for children of about eight and over". 🔑 বাংলায়: আগে সরাসরি ঢোকা যেত, এখন desk থেকে আগেই seat নিতে হয় — B। ছোট বাচ্চাদের জন্য উপযুক্ত না, তাই F না।
17the Tinker Lab
A. "There is a charge of three pounds per person, though, to cover the materials." Trap: C — it was only for school parties "until September, but now any visitor can take part"; B — "There's no need to book". 🔑 বাংলায়: আগে শুধু school party-র জন্য ছিল, এখন সবার জন্য খোলা (C না); booking লাগে না (B না); কিন্তু materials-এর জন্য £3 লাগে — A।
18the robot exhibition
D. "one of the robot arms broke down on Monday … so that whole area is shut for the time being." Trap: E — the website calls it "brand new", but "It's actually been with us for nearly three years". 🔑 বাংলায়: Website-এ "brand new" বলা হলেও আসলে প্রায় 3 বছর পুরনো (E না)। Robot arm নষ্ট, তাই এখন বন্ধ — D।
19Little Explorers
F. "it was designed for the under-fives, and older children do tend to get bored with it." Trap: C — "Nobody's turned away", so it is not restricted. 🔑 বাংলায়: পাঁচ বছরের কম বয়সী বাচ্চাদের জন্য বানানো — F। কাউকে ফেরানো হয় না, তাই C না।
20the rooftop telescope
E. "That was only put in last month." Trap: D — it does shut in bad weather, "but the forecast is clear today, so it should be open all afternoon". 🔑 বাংলায়: গত মাসে বসানো হয়েছে — E। খারাপ আবহাওয়ায় বন্ধ থাকে, কিন্তু আজ আকাশ পরিষ্কার, তাই খোলা — D না।
Section 3 · Questions 21–30 · planning a history podcast series
Two history students, Ruby and Declan, discuss a podcast series on wartime food rationing.
Questions 21–22 · Multiple Choice (choose TWO)
Choose TWO letters, A–E. Which TWO reasons do the students give for choosing a podcast rather than an essay?
21First reason
C and D (in either order). C: "we can let people who actually remember rationing tell the story in their own words." D: "I've applied for that internship at the local radio station … should look really good." Trap: A — "It'll take us longer than four thousand words would"; B — the tutor "genuinely doesn't mind either way"; E — "the university won't let them go online. The only people listening will be the two markers." 🔑 বাংলায়: দুটো কারণ — যারা rationing নিজে দেখেছেন তাদের নিজের কণ্ঠে গল্প (C), আর Declan-এর radio internship-এর application-এ কাজে লাগবে (D)। কম পরিশ্রম, tutor-এর পছন্দ, public-এর শোনা — তিনটাই বাতিল।
22Second reason
C and D (in either order) — see Question 21. Choose a different letter from the one you chose for Question 21. 🔑 বাংলায়: Choose TWO-তে দুই প্রশ্নে একই letter দিলে একবারই নম্বর পাবেন। উত্তর C আর D।
Questions 23–25 · Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
23What do the students decide about the length of each episode?
B. "So we stay comfortably under the limit, but not right up against it?" — "Yes, let's aim for twenty-five." Trap: A — Ruby's "ten or twelve minutes" is rejected ("It'll sound rushed"); C — the 30-minute maximum is the limit they deliberately stay below. 🔑 বাংলায়: 10–12 মিনিট বাতিল (তাড়াহুড়ো শোনাবে), আবার 30 মিনিটের সীমা পর্যন্তও না — 25 মিনিট, মানে 20 থেকে 30-এর মধ্যে।
24How will each episode be organised?
C. "why not build each episode around one of the people we've interviewed, and bring the background in around their story?" — "Yes, I like that." Trap: A — Ruby's "date order" plan is dropped (the tutor warned it becomes "a list of dates"); B — food types don't fit the interviews. 🔑 বাংলায়: তারিখ অনুযায়ী (A) আর খাবার অনুযায়ী (B) — দুটোই বাতিল। প্রতিটা episode হবে একজন interview দেওয়া মানুষের গল্প ঘিরে — C।
25What is Declan's concern about the old radio recordings?
A. "What bothers me is that there's music playing behind almost all of them … listeners are going to struggle to make out what anyone's saying." Trap: B — "the university's licence covers them, so there's nothing to pay"; C — "they've been cleaned up, so they sound much clearer than you'd expect". 🔑 বাংলায়: টাকা লাগবে না (B না), রেকর্ডিং পরিষ্কার করা হয়েছে (C না)। Declan-এর চিন্তা — পেছনের music-এর জন্য কথা বোঝা কঠিন হবে — A।
Questions 26–30 · Matching
What do the students say about each of the following sources? Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–F, next to Questions 26–30.
Comments
A It will be hard to gain access to.
B It reflects the views of the authorities.
C Some of its details may be wrong.
D It records what individual households purchased.
E There is too much of it to study in full.
F It will provide some light relief.
26the Ministry of Food leaflets
B. "they're essentially the government telling people how they ought to behave. They show what the people in charge wanted." Trap: "fun to look at" could suggest F, but the point Declan makes is about whose view they show. 🔑 বাংলায়: Leaflet-গুলো সরকারের চাওয়া দেখায়, মানুষ আসলে কী করেছে তা না — "authorities"-এর দৃষ্টিভঙ্গি — B।
27the Mass Observation diaries
E. "there are thousands of pages. Even if we only looked at a single year, we'd never get through it all before the deadline." Trap: A — "getting into it was no trouble" through the library subscription. 🔑 বাংলায়: Online-এ সহজেই পাওয়া যায় (A না), কিন্তু হাজার হাজার পাতা — পুরোটা পড়া সম্ভব না — E।
28the interview with Ruby's great-aunt
C. "she admits she muddles things up. She told me sweets were rationed from the very first day, but I checked, and it wasn't until 1942." Trap: F — Declan says "She's so funny", but Ruby's concern is accuracy. 🔑 বাংলায়: Declan বলেন তিনি মজার (F-এর ফাঁদ), কিন্তু Ruby-র চিন্তা — great-aunt তথ্য গুলিয়ে ফেলেন, sweets-এর তারিখ ভুল বলেছেন — C।
29the shop's account book
D. "It shows exactly what each family on Mill Street bought every week, right down to the last ounce of butter." Trap: A — Declan expected it to be "a nightmare to see", but the curator will bring it out "whenever we like". 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রতিটা পরিবার প্রতি সপ্তাহে কী কিনেছে তার হিসাব — D। দেখা কঠিন হবে ভাবা হয়েছিল, কিন্তু curator রাজি — তাই A না।
30the magazine cartoons
F. "They're really witty, and after all that queuing and going without, listeners will need something to make them smile." Trap: A — "They've all been digitised, so that's easy." 🔑 বাংলায়: Cartoon-গুলো digitise করা, পাওয়া সহজ (A না)। কষ্টের গল্পের মাঝে শ্রোতাদের একটু হাসাবে — "light relief" — F।
Section 4 · Questions 31–40 · a lecture on the history of the barcode
A history of technology lecture on how the barcode was invented and adopted.
Questions 31–40 · Note completion
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
The Barcode: From Idea to Checkout
Origins (Philadelphia, 1948)
31Initial approach: printing in a substance visible only under ______ light — short-lived and too expensive
ultraviolet. "a special ink that only showed up under ultraviolet light … the ink faded far too quickly, and it would have been far too costly." Trap: the drawbacks (faded, costly) come straight after — they describe the method, they don't fill the gap. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথম পদ্ধতিতে এমন কালি যা শুধু ultraviolet আলোয় দেখা যেত — কিন্তু ফিকে হয়ে যেত আর খরচ বেশি।
32Woodland's key idea came to him on a ______ in Florida
beach. "went to stay at his grandfather's flat in Florida … The breakthrough came … while he was sitting on the beach." Trap: the grandfather's flat is where he stayed, not where the idea came. 🔑 বাংলায়: তিনি দাদার flat-এ থাকতেন, কিন্তু আসল idea এসেছিল সৈকতে বসে — beach।
33Thin and thick lines: an extended version of ______ code, which he knew from his youth
Morse. "As a Boy Scout he'd learned Morse, and he began drawing its dots and dashes in the sand … the dots and dashes stretched out into lines." Trap: films are mentioned later, but only for the tube in the reading machine. 🔑 বাংলায়: ছোটবেলায় (Boy Scout থাকাকালীন) শেখা Morse code-এর dot-dash টেনে লম্বা করে চিকন-মোটা লাইন। Cinema-র soundtrack অন্য প্রসঙ্গ।
Development
34Legal protection for the invention obtained in ______
1952. "applied for a patent in October 1949, and it was finally granted in 1952." Trap: 1949 is when they applied; 1948 is when the story began. 🔑 বাংলায়: Patent-এর আবেদন 1949-এ, কিন্তু অনুমোদন (legal protection পাওয়া) 1952-এ।
35Early reading machine: lit by an extremely powerful ______, which created a fire risk
bulb. "Lasers hadn't yet been invented, so their prototype … used a five-hundred-watt bulb. It was so bright and gave off so much heat that it could easily have set the paper on fire." Trap: lasers did not exist yet; the "tube" from cinema films detected the light, it did not produce it. 🔑 বাংলায়: Laser তখনো আবিষ্কার হয়নি — 500-watt bulb ব্যবহার হতো, এত গরম যে কাগজে আগুন লাগতে পারত। Tube আলো ধরত, আলো দিত না।
36The inventors' total income from the idea: $______ (paid by Philco)
15,000. "sold their patent to the electronics company Philco for fifteen thousand dollars, and that, remarkably, was all they ever earned from it." Trap: "five-hundred" (the bulb's wattage) is the earlier number. 🔑 বাংলায়: Philco-র কাছে patent বিক্রি করে মাত্র 15,000 ডলার — এর বাইরে তারা আর কিছুই পাননি।
Early uses
37Railway wagons (late 1960s): the striped labels were given up mainly because of ______
dirt. "It wasn't the cost … Some people blamed the weather, but the real trouble was that the panels quickly became covered in dirt." Trap: cost (negated) and the weather (blamed by some, but not the real reason). 🔑 বাংলায়: খরচ বা আবহাওয়া আসল কারণ না — panel-গুলো দ্রুত ময়লায় ঢেকে যেত — dirt।
381972 shop trial: the circular design was unreliable, as its lines tended to ______ during production
smear. "As the labels went through the printing presses, the ink tended to smear in the direction the paper was travelling, and a blurred ring was impossible to read." Trap: shoppers "liked the faster queues", so the problem was technical, not customers. 🔑 বাংলায়: Print করার সময় কালি ছড়িয়ে (smear) যেত, ফলে গোল code ঝাপসা হয়ে পড়া যেত না।
39Earliest use in a real shop (1974): a store in ______, Ohio
Troy. "at a supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was a ten-pack of chewing gum." Trap: Cincinnati was the 1972 trial, not the first real scan. 🔑 বাংলায়: 1972-এর পরীক্ষা Cincinnati-তে, কিন্তু প্রথম আসল scan হয় 1974-এ Troy, Ohio-তে।
401976: a financial publication judged scanning to be a ______
failure. "Supporters had been calling the system a revolution, but in 1976 a leading business magazine published an article describing the supermarket scanner as a failure." Trap: "revolution" is the supporters' word, not the magazine's. 🔑 বাংলায়: সমর্থকেরা বলতেন "revolution", কিন্তু 1976-এ একটা business magazine একে failure বলেছিল।