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October 1960 5-a-day

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October 1960

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st October 1960A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
  2. 2nd October 1960Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
  3. 3rd October 1960Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
  4. 4th October 1960Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
  5. 5th October 1960A travel article is written for a general newspaper audience rather than for expert climbers. How might its vocabulary and level of detail differ from a specialist mountaineering magazine?
  6. 6th October 1960On a distance-time graph, a cyclist's journey is shown as a horizontal line for 15 minutes. What does this tell you about the cyclist during this time?
  7. 7th October 1960The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Work out the 15th term.
  8. 8th October 1960Find 35% of 180.
  9. 9th October 19603/4 of a number is 54. Work out 5/6 of the same number.
  10. 10th October 1960Work out the size of each interior angle of a regular decagon (10 sides).
  11. 11th October 1960Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
  12. 12th October 1960A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
  13. 13th October 1960A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
  14. 14th October 1960A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
  15. 15th October 1960Name the joint type found in the hip, and state one other place in the body where this same joint type is found.
  16. 16th October 1960Complete the word equation: hydrochloric acid + sodium hydroxide produces ___ + ___.
  17. 17th October 1960A torch bulb has a resistance of 15 ohms and a current of 0.2 A flows through it. Use V = I x R to calculate the voltage across the bulb.
  18. 18th October 1960Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
  19. 19th October 1960A pupil wants to measure the current flowing through a lamp in a circuit. Name the piece of apparatus she needs, and state whether it should be connected in series or in parallel with the lamp.
  20. 20th October 1960State whether an acid has a pH value above or below 7.
  21. 21st October 1960A hazard symbol shows a skull and crossbones on an orange background. State what hazard this represents.
  22. 22nd October 1960A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
  23. 23rd October 1960What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
  24. 24th October 1960A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?
  25. 25th October 1960Give one example of a statistic a writer might use to persuade readers to use fewer plastic bags.
  26. 26th October 1960Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The wind howled, and the shutters rattled.'
  27. 27th October 1960Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "The train arrived late."
  28. 28th October 1960Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: fresh bread the baker called still warm from the oven
  29. 29th October 1960Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
  30. 30th October 1960In a right-angled triangle, the angle at A is 32 degrees and the adjacent side is 9 cm. Work out the length of the hypotenuse, to 1 decimal place.
  31. 31st October 1960A cylindrical tin has radius 4 cm and height 15 cm. Work out its volume, to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)