Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1979 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1979
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1979Find and copy one word from 'the tide dragged its heavy silver chain across the sand' that gives the tide a human or animal-like quality.
- 2nd January 1979Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 3rd January 1979Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 4th January 1979Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 5th January 1979Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 6th January 1979A newspaper report about a school's new library states: 'The library, funded entirely by a single anonymous donation, opened its doors last Tuesday.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how was the library funded?
- 7th January 1979A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 8th January 1979A bag contains 12 red counters, 15 blue counters and 9 green counters only. A counter is picked at random. Work out the probability that it is blue, giving your answer as a decimal to 3 significant figures.
- 9th January 1979Convert the recurring decimal 0.3636... (where the digits 36 recur) to a fraction in its simplest form.
- 10th January 1979Two joggers start together at a park gate. One returns to the gate every 18 minutes, the other every 24 minutes. After how many minutes will they next be at the gate together?
- 11th January 1979Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. One of the angles formed is 63 degrees. State the size of the co-interior (allied) angle on the same side of the transversal, and explain why.
- 12th January 1979Factorise x^2 - 9x + 20.
- 13th January 1979Expand and simplify (2x - 3)(x + 4).
- 14th January 1979A car's value depreciates from 18,000 pounds to 14,400 pounds in one year. Work out the percentage decrease.
- 15th January 1979Work out 9 x 7.
- 16th January 1979Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
- 17th January 1979State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
- 18th January 1979In a series circuit, an ammeter placed before a bulb reads 0.6 A. State the current a second ammeter, placed elsewhere in the same series circuit, would read.
- 19th January 1979Name the enzyme, found in saliva, that begins the digestion of starch in the mouth.
- 20th January 1979State the standard unit used for density in physics and chemistry.
- 21st January 1979Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
- 22nd January 1979On a graph of temperature (y-axis) against time (x-axis), a straight line rises from (0 s, 20 degrees C) to (40 s, 60 degrees C). Calculate the gradient of this line, and state what it represents.
- 23rd January 1979Which word means the same as "exhausted" in a sentence describing tired climbers: "drained", "energetic", "cheerful" or "restless"?
- 24th January 1979A biography states that a person 'taught herself to read at six using her grandfather's newspapers, and published her first book by twenty.' What can a reader infer about this person's character from these facts?
- 25th January 1979A travel brochure and a science textbook both describe coral reefs. Which is more likely to use exaggerated, emotive language, and why?
- 26th January 1979A leaflet states 'You could help save a hundred bottles a year.' Which word directly addresses the reader?
- 27th January 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: 'The rain fell steadily.'
- 28th January 1979Write an expanded noun phrase, using at least two describing words, for "the suitcase on the platform."
- 29th January 1979Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Crates of fruit lined the pavement."
- 30th January 1979A spinner has a probability of 0.3 of landing on red, a probability of 0.45 of landing on blue, and the remaining probability of landing on green. Find the probability of landing on green.
- 31st January 1979Solve x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.