Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
July 1997 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in July 1997
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st July 1997In an extract, a character 'chewed his lip and stared at his shoes.' What does this suggest about the character's feelings?
- 2nd July 1997Add a colon to this sentence in the correct place: The expedition needed three things warm clothing enough food and a reliable map.
- 3rd July 1997Choose the correct word: There were ___ people at the concert than last year. (less / fewer)
- 4th July 1997Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The branches creaked and clawed at the window'?
- 5th July 1997Find and copy one word from 'the anvil's patient, unmoving weight' that gives the anvil a human quality.
- 6th July 1997Which word class is 'desperately' in 'He desperately searched for a handhold'?
- 7th July 1997In the sentence 'The overexcited puppy chewed through the new shoe,' what word class is 'chewed'?
- 8th July 1997A question asks you to "find and copy one phrase" meaning "completely dark." Which of these fits: "pitch black", "faintly lit", "clear blue" or "softly glowing"?
- 9th July 1997A rectangle has length 9 cm and width 6 cm. Work out its area and its perimeter.
- 10th July 1997Convert 2 hours 15 minutes into minutes.
- 11th July 1997Find 2/9 of 63.
- 12th July 1997Write 5.4 x 10^4 as an ordinary number.
- 13th July 1997A recipe needs 250 g of flour to make 8 muffins. Work out how much flour is needed to make 20 muffins at the same recipe strength.
- 14th July 1997Write 0.72 as a fraction in its simplest form.
- 15th July 1997A floor is tiled with a repeating pattern of identical regular hexagonal tiles, with no gaps or overlaps. State the size of each interior angle of a regular hexagon, and explain why regular hexagons can tile a flat floor exactly.
- 16th July 1997A cuboid has dimensions 6 cm by 4 cm by 3 cm. Calculate its volume.
- 17th July 1997Find the nth term of the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11, ...
- 18th July 1997State one way the alveoli are adapted for efficient gas exchange.
- 19th July 1997Explain why attaching a block of zinc to the hull of a steel ship helps to protect the ship from rusting.
- 20th July 1997A 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.
- 21st July 1997State which planet in the Solar System is closest to the Sun.
- 22nd July 1997Name the gas that makes up approximately 78% of the Earth's atmosphere.
- 23rd July 1997Which piece of apparatus should be used to measure the temperature of a liquid in an experiment?
- 24th July 1997In the same text, is the sentence "There is nothing more thrilling than floating silently above the countryside" a fact or an opinion?
- 25th July 1997Find 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.
- 26th July 1997Which two poetic techniques are both used in the line 'The wind whispered through the willow'?
- 27th July 1997Add the missing apostrophe: The three teachers offices were being redecorated. (There are three teachers, each with their own office.)
- 28th July 1997Add a semicolon in the correct place: The bus was late the queue grew longer by the minute.
- 29th July 1997Explain why a poet might choose soft, hissing sounds, sibilance, to describe a fox moving at night, rather than harsh, hard sounds.
- 30th July 1997A 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?
- 31st July 1997A line has equation y = 4x - 7. Write down its gradient and its y-intercept.