Cambridge 19 Reading — Full Solution in Bangla

Test 1 — 40 questions (Q1–40)

• Passage 1 — Tennis rackets — history and technology (Q1–13)
  True / False / Not Given (Q1–7) · Sentence completion (Q8–13)
• Passage 2 — Piracy in the ancient world — Rome (Q14–26)
  Sentence completion (Q24–26 shown in the book)
• Passage 3 — Misinformation and how it spreads (Q27–40)
  Multiple choice (Q27–30) · Matching sentence endings (Q31–36) · Yes / No / Not Given (Q37–40)

Test 2 — 40 questions (Q1–40)

• Passage 1 — The Industrial Revolution — Watt and Boulton's steam engine (Q1–13)
  Sentence completion (Q1–7) · True / False / Not Given (Q8–13)
• Passage 2 — Performance stress in athletes (Q14–26)
  Sentence completion (Q19–22 shown in the book)
• Passage 3 — Maryam Mirzakhani — Fields Medal mathematician (Q27–40)
  Summary completion, word bank (Q27–32) · Yes / No / Not Given (Q33–37) · Multiple choice (Q38–40)

Test 3 — 40 questions (Q1–40)

• Passage 1 — Prehistoric islanders — Kelo rock shelters (Q1–13)
  Sentence completion (Q8–13 shown in the book)
• Passage 2 — Wetlands and peatlands (Q14–26)
  Matching information (Q14–17) · Sentence completion (Q18–22) · Matching (Q23–26)
• Passage 3 — Automatic speech translation (Q27–40)
  Multiple choice (Q27–32) · Matching sentence endings (Q33–34) · Yes / No / Not Given (Q35–40)

Test 4 — 40 questions (Q1–40)

• Passage 1 — Butterflies — decline and predators (Q1–13)
  True / False / Not Given (Q1–6 shown in the book)
• Passage 2 — Deep-sea mining — cobalt and hydrothermal vents (Q14–26)
  Matching information (Q14–17) · Sentence completion (Q18–20)
• Passage 3 — Are humans naturally selfish? — hunter-gatherers and The Selfish Gene (Q27–40)
  Multiple choice (Q27–30) · Summary completion (Q31–35) · Yes / No / Not Given (Q36–40)

Test 1 — sample answers

Q24. Attacks on vessels transporting ___ to Rome.
Answer: grain

Q25. …resulted in calls for ___ for the pirates responsible.
Answer: punishment

Q27. What point does the writer make about misinformation in the first paragraph?
Answer: D

Full explanations for all 40 questions — keywords, passage match, synonyms, English + Bangla — are in the book.

Test 2 — sample answers

Q1. In Watt and Boulton's steam engine, the movement of the ___ was linked to a gear system.
Answer: piston

Q19. Performance stress involves many demands on the athlete, for example, coping with the possible risk of ___.
Answer: injury

Q27. Maryam Mirzakhani is regarded as ___ in the field of mathematics…
Answer: H — unique

Full explanations for all 40 questions — keywords, passage match, synonyms, English + Bangla — are in the book.

Test 3 — sample answers

Q8. Excavations of rock shelters inside ___ near the village of Kelo revealed…
Answer: caves

Q14. Reference to the need to ensure that inhabitants of wetland regions continue to benefit from them.
Answer: G

Q27. What does the reader learn about the conversation in the first paragraph? (speech translation)
Answer: D

Full explanations for all 40 questions — keywords, passage match, synonyms, English + Bangla — are in the book.

Test 4 — sample answers

Q1. There were fewer butterflies 40 years ago than there are now.
Answer: FALSE — the passage says there were more

Q14. Reference to the rapidly increasing need for one raw material in the transport industry (deep-sea mining).
Answer: C

Q27. What is the writer doing in the first paragraph? (human selfishness)
Answer: C — describing a commonly held belief about people's behaviour

Full explanations for all 40 questions — keywords, passage match, synonyms, English + Bangla — are in the book.