A man phones a dental practice to register as a new patient.
Questions 1–10 · Form completion
Complete the form below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Kingfisher Dental Practice — New Patient Registration
Personal details
1Surname: Marcus ______
Delahunt. "No, no Y. People often add one. It's D, E, L, A, H, U, N, T." Trap: the receptionist asks "Is there a Y at the end of that?" — he says no, so "Delahunty" is wrong. 🔑 বাংলায়: Receptionist জিজ্ঞেস করেন শেষে Y আছে কিনা — Marcus বলেন নেই, তারপর বানান করেন D-E-L-A-H-U-N-T। Section 1-এ বানান অক্ষর ধরে ধরে লিখুন, নিজে থেকে কিছু যোগ করবেন না।
2Date of birth: ______ March 1990
21. "The twelfth of March, nineteen ninety. Hang on, no, that's not right … It's the twenty-first. Twelve is my flat number." Trap: "twelfth" comes first and is self-corrected — the two digits are reversed. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথমে বলেন twelfth (12), তারপর নিজেই ঠিক করেন — twenty-first (21)। 12 আসলে তার flat নম্বর — distractor।
3Previous practice: in the city of ______
Dundee. "I was working in Edinburgh, so people assume I lived there too, but … I had a flat in Dundee and commuted, and my dentist was just round the corner from home." Trap: Edinburgh is where he worked; the dentist was near his home. "Scotland" is the country, not the city the form asks for. 🔑 বাংলায়: কাজ করতেন Edinburgh-এ, কিন্তু থাকতেন Dundee-তে — আর dentist ছিল বাসার কাছে। তাই উত্তর Dundee, Edinburgh না।
Medical history
4Takes medication for: ______
asthma. "I was on tablets for blood pressure … but my doctor took me off those … So these days it's only an inhaler, for my asthma." Trap: blood pressure was treated in the past — he no longer takes those tablets. 🔑 বাংলায়: Blood pressure-এর ওষুধ আগে খেতেন, এখন বন্ধ। এখন শুধু asthma-র জন্য inhaler — form-এ "takes" মানে বর্তমানে।
5Allergic to: ______
latex. "Not to medicines, no. I get hay fever every summer, but I don't suppose that matters to you. The thing I do react to is latex." Trap: medicines are ruled out, and hay fever is mentioned but dismissed. 🔑 বাংলায়: ওষুধে allergy নেই, hay fever-এর কথা বলেন কিন্তু সেটা গুরুত্বপূর্ণ না — আসল allergy latex (rubber gloves)-এ।
First appointment
6Day available: ______
Wednesday. "Tuesday used to be my regular day off, but I've just started a training course that runs every Tuesday … So the day I can always manage now is Wednesday." Trap: Saturdays are fully booked, and Tuesday was his day off only until the course started. 🔑 বাংলায়: Saturday-তে জায়গা নেই, Tuesday আগে ছুটি ছিল কিন্তু এখন training course — তাই Wednesday।
7Wants treatment for a ______ front tooth
chipped. "My gums bleed a little when I brush, but my old dentist said that's only because I brush too hard. What I'd really like someone to look at … there's a piece chipped off the corner." Trap: the bleeding gums are mentioned first but dismissed as nothing serious. 🔑 বাংলায়: মাড়ি থেকে রক্ত পড়ার কথা আগে আসে, কিন্তু সেটা সমস্যা না। সামনের দাঁতের এক কোণা ভেঙে গেছে — chipped।
Payment and other details
8Monthly plan: £______
16. "The next one up adds two sessions with the hygienist … and that's sixteen pounds. And the family plan, at thirty-four …" — Marcus: "so I'd better go for the middle option." Trap: £12.50 (standard) and £34 (family) are also given; the correct figure is not the last one said — you must link "middle option" back to the second plan. 🔑 বাংলায়: তিনটা plan — 12.50, 16, 34। Marcus বলেন "middle option" — মানে মাঝেরটা, hygienist সহ £16। শেষে শোনা 34 না।
9Ask former practice to send: his ______
X-rays. "We used to ask for proof of address, but not any more. What would really help is if you could ask your old practice to email us your X-rays." Trap: a passport or a bill (proof of address) is no longer needed. 🔑 বাংলায়: Passport বা ঠিকানার প্রমাণ এখন আর লাগে না। পুরনো practice থেকে X-rays পাঠাতে বলতে হবে।
10Recommended car park: to the rear of the ______
library. "There's a big car park at the supermarket … but it's meant for shoppers only … You'd be much better off using the one behind the library … It doesn't cost anything until ten." Trap: the supermarket car park is mentioned first, but fines are given to non-shoppers. 🔑 বাংলায়: Supermarket-এর car park শুধু ক্রেতাদের জন্য, fine হয়। Library-র পেছনেরটা সকাল 10টা পর্যন্ত free — "behind" = "to the rear of"।
Section 2 · Questions 11–20 · a guided walk at a canal basin
🎧 Recording — Section 2 1 speaker · welcome talk
A volunteer guide welcomes visitors to Fenwick Basin, an old canal basin.
Questions 11–16 · Map labelling
Label the map below. Write the correct letter, A–I, next to Questions 11–16.
Fenwick Basin — visitor map
11Boat-trip tickets
C. "they've now moved to a little wooden hut across the water … cross the footbridge … As you step off the bridge, the hut is immediately on your right." Walking north over the footbridge, your right is east = C. Trap: tickets were sold in the visitor centre "until last summer"; the building on your left (F) is the volunteers' workshop. 🔑 বাংলায়: আগে ticket visitor centre-এ বিক্রি হতো, এখন footbridge পার হয়ে ডান দিকের ছোট hut-এ — C। উত্তরে হাঁটলে ডান দিক = পূর্ব। বাঁ দিকের F হলো volunteers-দের workshop।
12Dry dock
H. "Just beyond it, a narrow channel runs north from the basin. That's the dry dock." Trap: "it" is the building with the clock tower (I) — the offices, not the dock. 🔑 বাংলায়: Clock tower-ওয়ালা building (I) পার হয়ে basin থেকে উত্তরে যাওয়া সরু খাল — H। খেয়াল করুন "it" কোনটাকে বোঝাচ্ছে।
13Museum
A. "Lots of visitors walk in expecting to find the museum, but it's actually the trust's offices … On its far side stands the tallest building on the site, a brick warehouse … that's where you'll find the museum." Trap: the clock-tower building (I) looks like a museum but is offices; the museum is on the far (east) side of the dry dock. 🔑 বাংলায়: অনেকে clock tower building-কে (I) museum ভাবে — আসলে office। Dry dock-এর ওপারের উঁচু warehouse-এ museum — A।
14Picnic area
B. "the little island in the middle of the basin … nobody's allowed onto it. So if you've brought sandwiches, the picnic area is on the grass to your right as you come off the swing bridge." Crossing south, your right is west = B. Trap: the website photos show people eating on the island (E), but they "were taken years ago". 🔑 বাংলায়: Website-এর ছবিতে island-এ (E) খাওয়া দেখায়, কিন্তু এখন সেখানে যাওয়া নিষেধ। Swing bridge থেকে দক্ষিণে নামলে ডান দিকের ঘাস — B।
15Café
G. "Right beside the lock, on the same side as the towpath, there's a small round building. That was the toll house … and it's now our café." Trap: there are two buildings by the lock — the café is on the towpath (south) side, not the far side. 🔑 বাংলায়: Lock-এর পাশে, towpath-এর দিকে (দক্ষিণে) গোল ছোট building — পুরনো toll house, এখন café — G।
16Stables
D. "And directly opposite, on the far side of the lock, there's a long, low building with a slate roof. Those were the stables." Trap: G is right beside the lock too, but on the towpath side. 🔑 বাংলায়: Café-র ঠিক উল্টো দিকে, lock-এর ওপারে (উত্তরে) লম্বা নিচু building — stables — D।
Questions 17–18 · Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
17What does the speaker say about the trip boat?
B. "Captain retired last spring, and as we couldn't find another horse with the right temperament, the boat now has an electric motor." Trap: A — the horse "used to" pull it; C — "although it looks very old … it was actually built about fifteen years ago, as a copy" of an 1830s boat. 🔑 বাংলায়: আগে ঘোড়া টানত (A এখন সত্য না)। দেখতে পুরনো হলেও 15 বছর আগে বানানো copy (C না)। এখন electric motor-এ চলে — B।
18Why does the speaker suggest visiting the upper level of the museum?
A. "the reason to climb all those stairs is the windows … they look straight down over the whole basin. If you want a good photograph, that's the place." Trap: B — the account books and letters "only really interest specialists"; C — "don't go up there expecting peace and quiet". 🔑 বাংলায়: কাগজপত্র শুধু বিশেষজ্ঞদের জন্য (B না), ভিড়ও কম না (C না)। জানালা দিয়ে পুরো basin দেখা যায় — view, তাই A।
Questions 19–20 · Multiple Choice (choose TWO)
Choose TWO letters, A–E. Which TWO activities can visitors take part in today?
19First activity
C and E (in either order). C: "our volunteers are showing how ropes were made by hand … and anyone can have a go." E: "the lock keeper will be bringing a boat through, and he's always glad of extra hands to push the heavy beams that open the gates." Trap: A — "we had to stop that last year"; B — "the season's closed until June, so not today"; D — "tonight's is already fully booked". 🔑 বাংলায়: হাঁসকে খাওয়ানো বন্ধ (A), fishing season বন্ধ (B), bat walk-এর সব জায়গা booked (D)। আজ করা যাবে — হাতে দড়ি বানানো (traditional craft, C) আর lock-এর gate ঠেলতে সাহায্য করা (E)।
20Second activity
C and E (in either order) — see Question 19. Choose a different letter from the one you chose for Question 19. 🔑 বাংলায়: Choose TWO-তে দুই প্রশ্নে একই letter দিলে একবারই নম্বর পাবেন। উত্তর C আর E।
Section 3 · Questions 21–30 · a building survey of a textile mill
Two architecture students, Aoife and Leo, discuss their survey of a former textile mill with their tutor.
Questions 21–25 · Multiple Choice
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
21Why did the students choose this particular mill?
C. "what really decided it was the owner. Most owners won't let students past the ground floor … but he said we could go anywhere we liked, even up into the roof." Trap: A — Leo thought it would be "pulled down", but Aoife: "Which turned out not to be true"; B — "it's two buses from campus, which was a pain". 🔑 বাংলায়: ভাঙা হবে — এটা ভুল খবর ছিল (A না); যাতায়াতও কঠিন (B না)। আসল কারণ — owner পুরো building-এ, এমনকি ছাদেও যেতে দিয়েছেন — C।
22What criticism does the tutor make of the photographs?
A. "My problem is that nothing in any of them tells a reader how big things are. Is that doorway two metres high, or four?" Trap: B — Aoife feared that, but the tutor says "Quite the opposite"; C — the cellar photos "are perfectly clear". 🔑 বাংলায়: ছবি কম না (B না), অস্পষ্টও না (C না)। সমস্যা — ছবিতে কোনো মাপের ধারণা নেই (scale নেই) — A।
23What do the students conclude about the chimney?
B. "We think it went up when the mill stopped relying on the river and installed its first steam engine, in the eighteen-fifties." Trap: C — Leo's first assumption, disproved by the machine-made brick and the straight joint; A — the tutor's suggestion, rejected because the fire "was in the warehouse at the other end of the site" and "The chimney isn't on it". 🔑 বাংলায়: Leo প্রথমে ভেবেছিলেন chimney আদি building-এর অংশ (C), tutor বলেন আগুনের পর নতুন করে বানানো (A) — দুটোই বাতিল। নদীর বদলে steam engine বসানোর সময় তৈরি — B।
24What did the students find at the very top of the building?
C. "The real surprise was the beams. Several have empty slots cut into them that don't connect to anything. So they must have come out of some older structure … and been reused." Trap: B — the fireplace made them wonder, but the room has "no partitions" and the fireplace was "for drying yarn"; A — the machinery is discussed, but it "all went for scrap". 🔑 বাংলায়: Fireplace দেখে মনে হয়েছিল মানুষ থাকত (B), কিন্তু সেটা সুতা শুকানোর জন্য। Beam-এ অকেজো খাঁজ — মানে পুরনো কোনো building থেকে এনে আবার ব্যবহার — C।
25What will the students do with the plans produced in the 1970s?
A. "Not completely. We'd put them in an appendix, beside our own plan, so a reader can see what's been altered since." Trap: B — Leo "wanted to copy them straight into the report", but Aoife objects; C — the tutor asks "So you'll leave them out?" and Aoife answers "Not completely". 🔑 বাংলায়: Leo চেয়েছিলেন সরাসরি report-এ দিতে (B), tutor জিজ্ঞেস করেন বাদ দেবে কিনা (C) — Aoife বলেন "Not completely"। Appendix-এ নিজেদের plan-এর পাশে রাখবে, পরিবর্তন দেখাতে — A।
Questions 26–30 · Flow-chart completion
Complete the flow-chart below. Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A–H, next to Questions 26–30.
A captions
B the engine house
C a timeline
D the owner
E colour shading
F aerial footage
G the basement
H the archivist
Completing the mill survey
26Return to the mill to take accurate measurements of
G. "We measured everything in the engine house on our first visit, but the cellar was flooded the second time, so we've only got rough figures for it." (cellar = basement) Trap: B — the engine house has already been measured. 🔑 বাংলায়: Engine house আগেই মাপা হয়েছে (B না)। Cellar-এ পানি ছিল, তাই সেটা আবার মাপতে হবে — cellar মানে basement — G।
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27On the plans, show each period of building work using plus a key
E. "Most surveyors would give each period its own tint, with a key in the corner." — "So the oldest walls in one colour, the steam-engine period in another?" Trap: writing "a date beside every single wall" is their current method, which the tutor says is too cluttered. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রতিটা দেয়ালের পাশে তারিখ লেখা — এখনকার পদ্ধতি, কিন্তু অগোছালো। প্রতিটা সময়কাল আলাদা রঙে (tint) — colour shading — E।
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28Place key photographs within the text and add
A. "Put the important ones beside the paragraph they illustrate, with a short line underneath each, saying what it shows and which way the camera was facing." (a short line underneath = a caption) Trap: Leo's plan — "all at the back, numbered" — is rejected. 🔑 বাংলায়: সব ছবি শেষে নম্বর দিয়ে রাখার plan বাতিল। প্রতিটা ছবির নিচে ছোট এক লাইন বর্ণনা — caption — A।
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29Ask to check the draft for factual errors
D. "We were going to ask the archivist … but she's away until May, after our deadline." — "What about the owner? … he spotted a mistake in our notes last time" — "He sounds ideal." Trap: H — the archivist is the first choice, but she is unavailable. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথমে archivist-এর কথা ভাবা হয় (H), কিন্তু তিনি deadline-এর পরে ফিরবেন। Owner-এর পরিবার তিন প্রজন্ম ধরে mill চালায়, আগেও ভুল ধরেছেন — D।
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30End the report with covering every alteration
C. "What examiners want at the end is every alteration set out in date order, on a single page." — "So a sort of chart running from seventeen ninety right up to the flats." Trap: F — Aoife's drone idea is rejected (it needs a licence and "wouldn't show the sequence of changes"). 🔑 বাংলায়: Drone দিয়ে ওপর থেকে ভিডিও (aerial footage, F) বাতিল। তারিখ অনুযায়ী সব পরিবর্তন এক পাতায় — timeline — C।
Section 4 · Questions 31–40 · a lecture on the science of laughter
A psychology lecture on scientific research into laughter.
Questions 31–40 · Note completion
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Laughter: What the Research Shows
When people laugh (Robert Provine)
31No more than a fifth of the remarks preceding laughter were at all ______
humorous. "Provine had expected most of them to follow jokes … At most one in five of them could be described as even slightly humorous." Trap: "jokes" and "witty remarks" are what Provine expected, not what he found. 🔑 বাংলায়: Provine ভেবেছিলেন হাসির আগে joke থাকে — কিন্তু বড়জোর পাঁচ ভাগের এক ভাগ কথা সামান্য মজার (humorous) ছিল। "No more than a fifth" = "at most one in five"।
32The ______, not the audience, laughed most (by roughly 46%)
speaker. "it wasn't the audience who laughed most. It was the speaker, who laughed around forty-six percent more than the person listening." Trap: most people would guess the listener laughs more — the lecture says the opposite. 🔑 বাংলায়: সাধারণ ধারণা — যে শোনে সে বেশি হাসে। কিন্তু গবেষণায় দেখা গেছে, যে কথা বলছে (speaker) সে প্রায় 46% বেশি হাসে।
33Laughter usually occurs during ______ in speech, rarely mid-phrase (Provine's 'punctuation' finding)
pauses. "People almost never laughed in the middle of a phrase. Instead, the laughter slotted into the pauses at the end of a sentence, much as a comma or a full stop does in writing." Trap: "comma", "full stop" and "punctuation" are only the comparison, not the place where laughter happens. 🔑 বাংলায়: হাসি বাক্যের মাঝখানে আসে না, বাক্যের শেষের বিরতিতে (pauses) আসে — যেমন লেখায় comma বা full stop। Comma/punctuation শুধু উপমা।
Laughter in other species
34Rats: Panksepp could provoke the same sounds artificially through ______
tickling. "young rats make high-pitched chirping calls during rough-and-tumble play … Panksepp then discovered that he could produce exactly the same calls himself, simply by tickling the animals." Trap: play-fighting is when rats make the calls naturally; the question asks how Panksepp produced them himself. 🔑 বাংলায়: ইঁদুর নিজেরা খেলার সময় (play) এই শব্দ করে — কিন্তু Panksepp নিজে একই শব্দ তৈরি করেছিলেন কাতুকুতু দিয়ে — tickling।
35Apes (Davila-Ross, 2009): a 'family tree' based on these sounds corresponded to one derived from ______ data
genetic. "the result was a family tree that matched the one biologists had already worked out from genetic evidence." Trap: the list of species (orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, human babies) distracts; the question is about what the earlier tree was based on. 🔑 বাংলায়: হাসির শব্দের মিল দিয়ে বানানো "family tree" আগের genetic তথ্যের tree-র সাথে মিলে গেছে। "data" = "evidence"।
Physical effects (Robin Dunbar, 2011)
36Principal test of pain tolerance: an ice-cold ______ on the lower arm (a device for cooling drinks)
sleeve. "In one version of the test, a blood-pressure cuff was pumped up tightly on the upper arm, but the main measure was a frozen sleeve … wrapped around the forearm." Trap: the cuff was used in only "one version" and on the upper arm; "principal" = "main". 🔑 বাংলায়: Blood-pressure cuff একটা version-এ ছিল (upper arm-এ)। মূল পরীক্ষা — বরফ-ঠান্ডা sleeve, কনুইয়ের নিচে (forearm = lower arm)।
37Proposed cause of the effect: the muscular strain of repeated exhalations that leave the ______ empty
lungs. "the benefit doesn't come from finding something amusing; it isn't a matter of mood. It's the physical work. A real belly laugh is a series of exhalations … which empties the lungs and tires the muscles of the chest." Trap: mood and amusement are explicitly ruled out; "chest" is where the muscles are, not what is emptied. 🔑 বাংলায়: মজা পাওয়া বা মন ভালো থাকা কারণ না। বারবার শ্বাস ছেড়ে ফুসফুস (lungs) খালি করার শারীরিক পরিশ্রমেই endorphin বের হয়। "chest" ফাঁদ।
Contagion
38Most listeners can tell when a laugh is ______ rather than spontaneous
posed. "listeners are surprisingly good at recognising a laugh that has been posed, that is, produced on purpose, as opposed to a genuine one." Trap: "genuine" is the opposite category (= spontaneous in the notes). 🔑 বাংলায়: ইচ্ছা করে বানানো হাসি (posed) আর আসল হাসি (genuine) — শ্রোতারা পার্থক্য ধরতে পারে। Notes-এ "spontaneous" = genuine, তাই gap-এ posed।
391962, Tanganyika: started in a ______ school for girls
boarding. "an outbreak of laughing began among pupils aged roughly twelve to eighteen at a girls' boarding school in the village of Kashasha, and it later spread to nearby villages." Trap: the villages are where it spread later, not where it began. 🔑 বাংলায়: শুরু হয়েছিল মেয়েদের boarding school-এ (Kashasha গ্রামে); পরে আশেপাশের গ্রামে ছড়ায়।
40Modern explanation: pupils' ______ over a demanding education and national upheaval
stress. "Doctors looked for some kind of poisoning or infection, but no physical cause was ever found. More recent researchers have put it down to stress." Trap: poisoning and infection were the original suspicions, both ruled out. 🔑 বাংলায়: প্রথমে বিষক্রিয়া বা সংক্রমণ সন্দেহ করা হয় — কিছুই পাওয়া যায়নি। পরের গবেষকেরা কারণ বলেন stress — কঠোর পড়াশোনা আর দেশের বড় পরিবর্তন।