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July 1985 5-a-day

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July 1985

31 sheets · 155 questions · Years 7-8

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  1. 1st July 1985Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The waves whispered along the shingle shore'?
  2. 2nd July 1985What is the name for a poem written without a regular rhyme scheme or fixed rhythm?
  3. 3rd July 1985Choose the correct homophone: You should always ___ your times tables before a test. (practice / practise)
  4. 4th July 1985Choose the correct word: ___ leaving their bags by the door. (Their / There / They're)
  5. 5th July 1985Find and copy one word from 'the fox paused, listening to the city's held breath' that gives the city a human quality.
  6. 6th July 1985A 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?
  7. 7th July 1985On 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?
  8. 8th July 1985A 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.
  9. 9th July 1985Work out 3/4 + 1/6, giving your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
  10. 10th July 1985Two 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?
  11. 11th July 1985Two 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.
  12. 12th July 1985Solve x^2 = 7x - 12.
  13. 13th July 1985Solve x^2 + 3x - 18 = 0.
  14. 14th July 1985Find 3^3 + sqrt(64).
  15. 15th July 1985120 pounds is shared between Leo and Maya in the ratio 3:5. Work out how much Maya receives.
  16. 16th July 1985Explain why muscles must work in antagonistic pairs rather than alone.
  17. 17th July 1985State whether a solution with pH 3 is acidic, neutral, or alkaline.
  18. 18th July 1985A 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.
  19. 19th July 1985Name the salt formed when hydrochloric acid reacts with sodium hydroxide.
  20. 20th July 1985A 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.
  21. 21st July 1985Name the force that pulls all objects with mass towards each other, keeping planets in orbit.
  22. 22nd July 1985On 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.
  23. 23rd July 1985In an extract, a climber "kept checking the rope, tugging it twice before every step." What does this suggest about the climber?
  24. 24th July 1985In a report, a word is defined as follows: 'The team faced constant setbacks - equipment failure, bad weather and dwindling supplies chipped away at morale.' What does 'dwindling' mean here?
  25. 25th July 1985A biography states that a scientist 'spent every evening after his factory shift teaching himself chemistry from borrowed textbooks.' What can a reader infer about this person from these facts?
  26. 26th July 1985An article opens with a short story about one seabird found tangled in plastic, before giving any wider statistics. What is this technique called?
  27. 27th July 1985Punctuate this line of speech correctly, adding inverted commas and any other punctuation needed, without changing the words: watch your step said the warden the path is icy
  28. 28th July 1985Identify whether this sentence is simple, compound or complex: "Although the platform was crowded, Amara found a seat by the window."
  29. 29th July 1985Identify the fronted adverbial in this sentence: "Slowly, the shutters were raised one by one."
  30. 30th July 1985Find the median and the range of this data set: 7, 3, 9, 3, 12, 5.
  31. 31st July 1985Write 3.6 x 10^-3 as an ordinary number.