HESI A2 NEW FILE TESTED READING -2023

HESI A2 NEW FILE TESTED READING -2023 *Florence Nightingale*** 1. What is pivotal? *Nursing 2. What happened after completion of her studies? *Back to London and worked at the hospital 3. What she founded when she visited the hospital *Filter, dirty bedroom 4. Why she studied secretly? *Wealthy people didn’t work at the hospital 5. Why did she have an opportunity as a child? *Because her family was rich, they had a lot of money 6. She was once a pivotal person in the area? *Patient’s Right *Facts About the One Dollar Bill 1. What did the author intend? *Share some little-known facts about the one-dollar bill 2. Why is making counterfeit copies of the one-dollar bill difficult? *The formula for the ink used is kept a secret 3. What is implied by the message, The One Dollar Bill? *Is a fabulously historical document 4. In the third sentence of the passage, the word minute means? *Extremely small 5. We often accidentally wash dollar bills, why is this not a problem? *Because the dollar bills are made of cotton and linen, so they wash easily. Phobias 1. According to the passage, which of the following are types of phobias? (Put all that apply) *Social phobias, panic disorder, anxiety phobia 2. What does the author want the reader to know about phobia? *That phobia is debilitating 3. The passage says that being afraid is normal and good, according to the passage why is having a phobia not normal and good because of phobia? *Are extreme and unreasonable *Factory 1. The information presented in this paragraph? *Balanced in its approach 2. What is the best definition to the word “execution” as it is used in the last sentence of this paragraph? *Implementation or Design 3. The paragraphs suggest that the purpose of a factory layout is for? *Safety and profit 4. The paragraph states that both labor and management? *Can benefit from a well-designed factory 5. The author’s reason for writing this composition seems to have been to? *Persuade people to modernize factory design *Violence 1. Based on this reading, early research indicates that the relationship between violence in the television and violence on the street? *Appears Probable 2. The author seems to support? *Further research into the effects of television violence 3. The theme of this article seems to be? *To inform people about the debate over the television violence 4. The paragraph described television executive as? *Responsive to public demands Amazon Rainforest About 6% of the earth is covered by rainforests. The largest rainforest in the world is the Amazon Basin, which stretches over 2.3 million square miles in nine different South American countries. This area is double the length of all the other remaining rainforests in the world. Brazil contains 60%of the Amazonian rainforest, since it lies at the mouth of the river Amazon. This river is the second largest in the world and contains more than one-fifth oftheworld’sfreshwater. The Amazon rainforest is a type of wet broadleaf forest. The weather there is very humid and warm as it rains quite a bit. Because of the high rainfall, the forest is very rich and green. The tree leaves are pointed and narrow so that the raindrops can easily drop off wet plants. This tropical rainforest has more living species than the entire European continent. There are over 400 types of insects living in one single rain forest tree for a total of 2.5 million species. One square kilometer of rainforest may contain over 75,000 types of trees and approximately 438,000 different kinds of plants, which comes to a total of 90,000 tons of greenery overall. The Amazon rainforest is home to 2,000 birds and mammals, with one in every five birds in the world living there. Local farmers have lived off this rich and diverse land for thousands of years. They have been able to find food and water here without destroying the land. The Kayapo people of Brazil farm in an environmentally-friendly way. Instead of chemicals, they use burned wood to enrich the soil, and plant banana trees, which attract wasps. These wasps then feed on leafcutter ants and get rid of these harmful insects. The rainforest also offers a lot of tropical fruits, such as bananas and coconuts, as food. Cinnamon is made from the bark of a rainforest tree. Amazonian Indians use the fruit and stem of the Buruti plant as a drink, to make bread and to build houses. Many other plants are used as medicine. But the Amazon rainforest is in very big danger of disappearing. 9,169 square miles of forest have been cut down in 2003 in Brazil alone. An area of the size of a football field is burned down basically every minute, which means that the rain forest may be gone by the year 2030.The dangers related to this type of activity are obvious. Trees take in poisonous carbon dioxide from the air and give off oxygen. There is more oxygen and less carbon dioxide around a rainforest. When trees are cut down, however, the amount of carbon dioxide increases, and the air gets warmer. This leads to global warming, which is extremely harmful to the environment. It is estimated that the burning of Brazilian rainforests alone produces 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide ayear. Another danger connected with destroying the rainforest is the disappearance of plants and animals. When trees are cut down, plants and animals have no more food left and slowly die out. Killing wild animals is illegal in Brazil, but there is plenty of stealing going on. 38 million animals are stolen and sold illegally each year. The most hunted animals are birds, especially parrots, followed by snakes and the jaguar. 1. According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT mentioned about the Amazon Rainforest? (C)Its precipitation 2. How can you describe the Amazon rainforest? (Choose 2 answers) (A)It rains all time there so the forest is always green. (C)The plants are shaped so that rainwater can pour off them. 3. Which of the following is true about the Amazon Basin? (B)It is more than one-fifth of all the other rainforests in the world. 4. Look at the end of paragraph 2. What does the author refer to when he says “rich and diverse land” at the beginning of paragraph 3? (B)2,000 birds and mammals in the Amazon rainforest 5. What does the sentence “people of Brazil farm in an environmentally friendly way” mean in paragraph 3? (A) They do not poison the soil when farming. 6. . Which rainforest plant has more than one use? (D)The Bruti plant 7. What is the biggest problem related to the disappearance of the rainforest? (D)Cutting down trees