HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES DIAGRAM

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HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES DIAGRAM

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Question 1: Safe Driving

Answer:

• What is the best meaning of the word advocate as used in the forth sentence of this paragraph?

Supporter.

• What is stated in this paragraph?

Each individuals driving behavior is the key to automobile safety.

• What is implied by this paragraph?

Government action will not help if individual drivers do not cooperate.

• The author seems to think that?

All cars should be properly inspected.

• The author's motive for writing the paragraph seems to have been to?

Get people personally involved with traffic safety.

Question 2: V1

Eating Food Game of Bridge Getting a Good Night's Sleep Chronic Insomnia

Phobia Rainforest Safe Driving The Water Cycle Voice White Elephant The Golden Bridge

Answer:

V2 Bicycles Changing Time Glass Healthcare Homonyms Isaac Asimov Jazz Laughter Lightning Mr. Rogers Nurseries Rainforest Extras

Question 3: Food

Food and drink are necessary and desirable, but their abuse can cause serious physical and metal problem. Many physicians believe that overeating is one of the country's main health problems, since it places a great strain on the heart, can lead to diabetes, and often shortens the individual's life span. To fill an emotional void. people often turn to food when they are bored or lonely. Another area of concern is alcohol consumption. The results of alcohol abuse are widely publicized. The social drinker who becomes alcoholic, the drunken driver's contribution to highway death, spousal and child abuse, are all concomitant problems associated with alcohol abuse.

Answer:

• As used in the last sentence of this paragraph, the term "concomitant" means?

Accompanying

• The information presented in this article is?

Against drinking alcohol

• The author's motive for writing the paragraph seems to have have been to?

Urge self-control

• What is implied by this paragraph?

We should eat and drink in reasonable quantities.

• The author seems to?

Oppose drinking alcohol

Question 4: Eating

Consumption of food is a universal necessity. Different cultures have developed different methods to accomplish the task. It is interesting to discover these differences and learn new ways to do things. European cultures developed cutlery (knives, forks, and spoons) to enable people to efficiently eat their food. Correct use of this tools changes with the times-what was polite in 1800 may not be considered proper manners today. China developed the chopstick as an efficient tool for eating. Mastery of the use of chopsticks can be difficult for the person not raised in the culture. The attempts of a novice to use chopsticks can be very amusing to the watcher, but frustrating for the hungry diner. Space travel has created new challenges for consuming food. Squeeze bottles and other unique packaging have enabled space travelers to get their needed nutrition. Chopsticks and forks do not work well in space.

Answer:

• What conclusion can be drawn about the article?

The author explain differences in eating processes.

• What statement can be implied from the content of article.

Diversity is interesting to learn about

• What is the best definition of "efficient" as used in the third paragraph?

Productive without waste

• What statement from the article draws a conclusion?

It is interesting to discover new ways to do things

• What statement from the article is correct?

China developed chopsticks for eating utensils

Question 5: The Flu

Answer:

• What is the main idea of the passage

The flu is a deadly disease that's difficult to control because people become infectious

• Why is the flu considered not too infectious?

The flu virus cannot travel far or live for long periods of time outside the human body, so its spread can be easily contained

• What is the meaning of the word "measures" in the last paragraph?

Plan of action

• Which of the following correctly describes the flu?

The flu is difficult to contract and sometimes fatal

Question 6: All the Jazz

Jazz has been called "the art of expression set to music", and "America's great contribution to music". It has functioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of widespread public response, in the "jazz age" of the 1920s, in the "swing era" of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modern jazz in the late 1950s. The standard legend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up the Mississippi River to Memphis, St.Louis, and finally to Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and cornet player, is generally considered to have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891.What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of improvisation. Jazz displayed a break from traditional music where a composer wrote an entire piece of music on paper, leaving the musicians to break their backs playing exactly what was written on the score. In a Jazz piece, however, the song is simply a starting point, or sort of skeletal guide for the Jazz musicians to improvise around. Many of the early Jazz musicians were bad sight readers and some couldn't even read music at all. These early musicians couldn't make money very much and were stuck working menial jobs to make a living. The second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians included such memorable players as Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton. These men formed small bands and took the music of earlier musicians, improved its complexity, and gained greater success. This music is known as "hot Jazz" due to the enormously fast speeds and rhythmic drive. A young cornet player by the name of Louis Armstrong was discovered by Joe Oliver in New Orleans. He soon grew up to become one of the greatest and most successful musicians of all time, and later one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other talented early Jazz musicians changed the way we look at music.

Answer:

• The Passage answers which of the following questions?

What were the origins of Jazz and how did it differ from other forms of music?

• According to the passage, Jazz originated in

New Orleans

• The word "welded" in line 6 is closest in meaning to

bound

• Which of the following distinguished Jazz as a new form of musical expression?

improvisation

• The word "skeletal" in line 15 is closest in meaning to

framework

• Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?