HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES EXAM

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HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES EXAM

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Question 1: 4. The word "uneven " in line 11 is closest in meaning to

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Not uniform

Question 2: Choose the best summary of the passage.

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Omelets can be made by anyone as long as they pay attention and follow the recipe. Many different ingredients can be used to make omelettes but milk, lard and a dash of salt are always recommended.Question 3: 3. What she found when she visited the hospital:

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Filter, dirty bathroom

Question 4: 6. She was once a pivotal person in which area?

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Patient's Rights

Question 5: Tesla

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Croatian-born inventor Nikola Tesla is often called the "scientist". Although he invented the alternating current (AC) motor and developed an AC electricity generation system, he never received historical credit for many of his achievements, unlike one of his first employer and eventual nemesis, inventor Thomas Edison Tesla made the first sketches of his idea for a brushless of his idea for a brushless AC motor while he was a student at the University of Prague in 1882. His interest in electricity generation led him to Paris where he was employed by the Continental Edison Company later that year to repair Edison's direct current (DC) power plants.Two years later, Tesla immigrated to New York City and acquired a job as an engineer at Thomas Edison's headquarters in Manhattan. Edison was impressed with Tesla's work ethic and ingenuity. He challenged the young scientist to develop an improved design for his DC generators for $50,000. Tesla experimented for months, finally presenting Edison with the solution he needed. Edison reneged on the deal, telling Tesla that he didn't understand American humor. Tesla soon left Edison in order to begin his own electric light company Tesla filed and was granted more than 30 patents for his inventions in 1887 and 1888. He soon had financial backing for his ideas from one of Edison's main competitors, Westinghouse. In the 1890's Tesla experimented with x-rays, developed a high-voltage electrical transformer call the Tesla coil, and demonstrated the propagation of radio waves two years before the "Father of Radio" Guglielmo Marconi. He was also the first to harness the mammoth potential energy of Niagara Falls. He worked with General Electric to install AC generators with turbines driven by the falling waters of the Niagara River, creating the first modern power plant although a brilliant scientist, Tesla was not an astute businessman. He created his own obscurity by relinquishing royalty rights for his inventions to major corporations for the purpose of raising funds for future projects.

Question 6: 1. What is pivotal?

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Nursing Question 7: The various regions in the United States host a wide variety of types of trees. From mountainous regions to swamps, the range of climates allows for all manner of trees to flourish.

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Omelette

Question 8: Immigration

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People of Hispanic origin were on the North American continent centuries before settlers arrived from Europe in the early 1600s and the thirteen colonies joined together to form the United States in the late 1700s. The first census of the new nation was conducted in 1790, and counted about four million people, most of whom were white. Of the white citizens, more than 80% traced their ancestry back to

England. There were close to 700,000 slaves and about 60,000 "free Negroes". Only a few Native American Indians who paid taxes were included in the census count, but the total Native American population was probably about one million.By 1815, the population of the United States was 8.4 million. Over the next 100 years, the country took in about 35 million immigrants, with the greatest numbers coming in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1882, 40,000 Chinese arrived, and between 1900 and 1907, there were more than 30,000 Japanese immigrants. But by far, the largest numbers of the new immigrants were from central, eastern, and southern Europe.An enormous amount of racial and ethnic assimilation has taken place in the United States. In 1908, play-write Israel Zangwill first used the term "melting pot" to describe the concept of a place where many races melted in a crucible and re-formed to populate a new land. Some years during the first two decades of the 20th century, there were as many as one million new immigrants per year, an astonishing 1 percent of the total population of the United States.In 1921, however, the country began to limit immigration, and the Immigration Act of 1924 virtually closed the door. The total number of immigrants admitted per year dropped from as many as a million to only 150,000. A quota system was established that specified the number of immigrants that could come from each country. It heavily favored immigrants from northern and western Europe and severely limited everyone else. This system remained in effect until 1965, although after World War II, several exceptions were made to the quota system to allow in groups of refugees.

Question 9: 6. The word "erase" in line 19 is closest in meaning to

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obliterate

Question 10: Which of the following is not listed as a detail in the passage?

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Add pepper just before serving.

Question 11: Florence Nightingale

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Question 12: Land covered with timber-producing forests

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• Which of the following statements in the passage are fact?

Question 13: Which of the following statements in the passage are opinion?

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A perfect omelette should be flat.Question 14: 2. According to the passage, which ancestry predominated at the time of the first census?

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English Question 15: 4. What is the meaning of the word obscurity as it is used in the last paragraph?

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Insignificance

Question 16: 3. The theme of this article seems to be?

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To inform people about the debate over the television violence

Question 17: 2. The word "debris" in line 5 is closest in meaning to

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rubbish Question 18: Kentucky, the center of the broad-leaved belt, has several thousand different varieties of trees.

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• What is the meaning of the word timberlands as used in the 3rd paragraph?

Question 19: 7. The word "concept" in line 16 is closest in meaning to

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thought Question 20: 3. What is the meaning of the word "astute" in the last paragraph?

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Shrewd