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May 1978 5-a-day

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May 1978

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st May 1978A climber notices 'his fingers had gone from cold to strangely warm.' What might this detail suggest to an alert reader?
  2. 2nd May 1978Correct the punctuation in this sentence, which reports direct speech: she shouted watch out and pulled her brother back from the road
  3. 3rd May 1978A 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?
  4. 4th May 1978Find 2/5 of 65.
  5. 5th May 1978Work out 40% of 65.
  6. 6th May 1978A jacket costs 65 pounds. Work out the cost after a 20% discount.
  7. 7th May 1978p is inversely proportional to q. When q = 8, p = 9. Work out p when q = 6.
  8. 8th May 1978Write 0.35 as a fraction in its simplest form.
  9. 9th May 1978Work out 5/6 of 90.
  10. 10th May 1978In 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?
  11. 11th May 1978A rectangle has length 9.2 cm and width 6.8 cm. Calculate its perimeter.
  12. 12th May 1978The nth term of a sequence is 5n - 2. Find the 12th term.
  13. 13th May 1978Name the enzyme that digests starch, and state the product it is broken down into.
  14. 14th May 1978Name the gas released when fossil fuels are burned that is the main cause of the enhanced greenhouse effect.
  15. 15th May 1978Name the organs whose main job is to filter waste products out of the blood and produce urine.
  16. 16th May 1978Name the continuous process by which rocks are broken down, transported, deposited, and can eventually reform into new rock types.
  17. 17th May 1978Name the force that opposes the motion of an object moving through air.
  18. 18th May 1978A 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.
  19. 19th May 1978A non-fiction text about volcanoes uses the heading "How an Eruption Happens." What is the purpose of this heading?
  20. 20th May 1978What is the name for a poem written in three-line stanzas?
  21. 21st May 1978A poem has four-line stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme throughout. What effect might this regular structure have on the reader?
  22. 22nd May 1978Insert a colon in the correct place: The kit list included the following items a torch, a compass and a whistle.
  23. 23rd May 1978Correct the subject-verb agreement error: The team of swimmers were training every morning.
  24. 24th May 1978A poem compares the fox's eyes to 'two small, cold coins.' Name this technique.
  25. 25th May 1978You are asked to summarise a paragraph in one sentence. What is the biggest risk to avoid?
  26. 26th May 1978A conversion graph shows that 5 miles is equivalent to 8 kilometres. Using this scale, convert 20 miles to kilometres.
  27. 27th May 1978A 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.)
  28. 28th May 1978Write 3/5 as a decimal.
  29. 29th May 1978Two numbers are in the ratio 4 : 7. Their sum is 66. Work out the difference between the two numbers.
  30. 30th May 1978A shape is made from a rectangle measuring 12 cm by 8 cm, with a right-angled triangle of base 6 cm and height 8 cm removed from one corner. Work out the area of the remaining shape.
  31. 31st May 1978Expand and simplify (x + 5)(x - 3).