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May 1965 5-a-day

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May 1965

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st May 1965What is the name for a poem written in stanzas of two lines each?
  2. 2nd May 1965Explain why a poet might choose short, one-syllable words to describe the strike of a hammer, rather than longer, softer words.
  3. 3rd May 1965A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  4. 4th May 1965In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
  5. 5th May 1965A question is worth 5 marks and asks you to explain how a writer builds a sense of danger across a paragraph. Roughly how many separate, developed points should your answer include?
  6. 6th May 1965Find 2/5 of 65.
  7. 7th May 1965Work out 40% of 65.
  8. 8th May 1965A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  9. 9th May 1965p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  10. 10th May 1965Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  11. 11th May 1965Work out 5/6 of 90.
  12. 12th May 1965In a class of 30 pupils, 18 play football, 14 play tennis, and 7 play both football and tennis. How many pupils play neither football nor tennis?
  13. 13th May 1965A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  14. 14th May 1965Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
  15. 15th May 1965Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  16. 16th May 1965Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  17. 17th May 1965A results table has columns for 'Time (s)' and 'Temperature (degrees C)'. State which of these two variables would normally be plotted on the x-axis of a line graph.
  18. 18th May 1965State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
  19. 19th May 1965Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  20. 20th May 1965A student reads the volume of liquid in a measuring cylinder. The bottom of the meniscus lines up exactly halfway between the 22 cm^3 and 24 cm^3 graduation marks. State the volume of liquid.
  21. 21st May 1965A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
  22. 22nd May 1965What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
  23. 23rd May 1965A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
  24. 24th May 1965Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
  25. 25th May 1965Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
  26. 26th May 1965A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
  27. 27th May 1965A biography states that a person 'left school at fourteen to support her family, and by twenty-one had opened her own shop.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
  28. 28th May 1965A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.
  29. 29th May 1965A cylindrical water butt has a radius of 35 cm and a height of 120 cm. Work out its volume, giving your answer in cm^3 to 3 significant figures. (Use pi = 3.14159.)
  30. 30th May 1965Write 3/5 as a decimal.
  31. 31st May 1965Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.