Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
June 1981 5-a-day
Every sheet in June 1981
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st June 1981Add a hyphen where needed: a ten year old girl won the competition.
- 2nd June 1981Explain why a poet might end a poem about autumn with a single short line, such as 'Then, silence.'
- 3rd June 1981A poem has three-line stanzas with no rhyme at all. What effect might this irregular structure create?
- 4th June 1981A climber 'gripped the rope until his knuckles turned white, then made himself let go, one finger at a time.' What does this suggest about the difficulty of what he is doing?
- 5th June 1981Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: The dog wagged ___ tail happily. (its / it's)
- 6th June 1981Which word means the same as "enormous" in a sentence describing a huge shipwreck: "colossal", "tiny", "narrow" or "shallow"?
- 7th June 1981A charity bake sale raises 200 pounds, split between three charities in the ratio 3 : 2 : 5. Work out the amount the largest share receives.
- 8th June 1981Work out 9 x 8.
- 9th June 1981Work out (4 + 3) x (9 - 5).
- 10th June 1981y is directly proportional to x^2. When x = 4, y = 32. Work out y when x = 6.
- 11th June 1981Write the ratio 18:24 in its simplest form.
- 12th June 1981Work out 8.4 x 6, using a written method.
- 13th June 1981A regular polygon has an exterior angle of 24 degrees. Work out how many sides the polygon has.
- 14th June 1981State the order of rotational symmetry and the number of lines of symmetry of a regular pentagon.
- 15th June 1981A pattern of dots grows so that pattern 1 has 4 dots, pattern 2 has 7 dots, and pattern 3 has 10 dots. How many dots will pattern 6 have?
- 16th June 1981Name the substance that builds up in muscles during anaerobic respiration and causes fatigue.
- 17th June 1981Name the two substances that must both be present for iron to rust.
- 18th June 1981Explain how a person is able to see a book resting on a table in a well-lit room, in terms of light rays.
- 19th June 1981Explain one way in which a polar bear's thick white fur helps it survive in the Arctic.
- 20th June 1981State the name of the process by which light rays bend as they pass from air into glass.
- 21st June 1981Amara is investigating how the mass of a paper cone affects how long it takes to fall from a fixed height. State the independent variable and the dependent variable in this investigation.
- 22nd June 1981In a factual text, is the sentence "Hot air balloons were first flown in France in 1783" a fact or an opinion?
- 23rd June 1981A poem repeats the phrase 'and still it climbed' at the end of every stanza. What is this technique called, and what might its effect be?
- 24th June 1981Find and copy one word from the phrase 'the old clock ticked its patient rhythm' that gives the clock a human quality.
- 25th June 1981Which punctuation mark correctly joins these two sentences without adding a joining word: 'The coach was late the pupils waited in the hall.'?
- 26th June 1981Choose the correct word: I'm not sure ___ my umbrella is. (where / were / we're)
- 27th June 1981A poem is written in a single, unbroken stanza with no rhyme. What effect might this create?
- 28th June 1981A 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?
- 29th June 1981A straight line passes through (0, 5) and has a gradient of -2. Write down its equation.
- 30th June 1981A car valued at 12,000 pounds depreciates by 15% in its first year. Work out its value at the end of the first year.