HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES EXAM

PDF Download

HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES $$$ EXAM

QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -62 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 1. What did Tesla accomplish while attending the University of Prague? (tesla)

Answer:

Made designs for a brushless alternating current motor.Question 2: Kentucky, the center of the broad-leaved belt, has several thousand different varieties of trees.

Answer:

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

Question 3: Florence Nightingale

Answer:

--- Question 4: 4. What is the meaning of the word obscurity as it is used in the last paragraph?(tesla)

Answer:

Insignificance

Question 5: Violence

Answer:

--- Question 6: 4. The author's reason for writing this composition seems to have been to? (factory)

Answer:

Persuade people to modernize factory design Question 7: 2. The word "debris" in line 5 is closest in meaning to (moon)

Answer:

rubbish

Question 8: 5. Why did she have an opportunity as a child? (florence)

Answer:

Her family was rich, they had a lot of money Question 9: 5. What word means the same as relinquishing as it is used in the last paragraph?(tesla)

Answer:

Surrendering Question 10: 8. The word "virtually" in line 21 is closest in meaning to (immigration)

Answer:

effectively

Question 11: 1, The information presented in this paragraph is (factory)

Answer:

Balanced in its approach Question 12: 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.

Answer:

Omelette

Question 13: 1. What is the passage primarily about?(moon)

Answer:

what we know about the Moon and its differences to Earth

Question 14: Tesla

Answer:

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 bril

Question 15: What is the main idea of this passage? (omelette)

Answer:

With a little attention, anyone can easily cook the perfect omelet.

Question 16: 7. A person on the Moon would weigh less than on the Earth (moon)

Answer:

because the surface gravity of the Moon is less

Question 17: The forests of western Washington and Oregon, unlike most timberlands of the Rocky Mountain Region, are as dense as any forests in the world.

Answer:

• Which statement would be inferred by the reader? (trees)

Question 18: Which of the following statements in the passage are opinion? (omelette)

Answer:

A perfect omelette should be flat.

Question 19: There are a wide variety of trees in the United States.

Answer:

• Choose the best summary of the passage. (trees)

Question 20: Moon

Answer:

The Moon has been worshipped by primitive peoples and has inspired humans to create everything from lunar calendars to love sonnets, but what do we really know about it? The most accepted theory about the origin of the Moon is that it was formed of the debris from a massive collision with the young Earth about 4.6 billion years ago. A huge body, perhaps the size of Mars, struck the Earth, throwing out an immense amount of debris that coalesced and cooled in orbit around the Earth.The development of Earth is inextricably linked to the moon; the Moon's gravitational influence upon the Earth is the primary cause of ocean tides. In fact, the Moon has more than twice the effect upon the tides than does the Sun. The Moon makes one rotation and completes a revolution around the Earth every 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes. This synchronous rotation is caused by an uneven distribution of mass in the Moon (essentially, it is heavier on one side than the other) and has allowed the Earth's gravity to keep one side of the Moon permanently facing Earth. It is an average distance from Earth of 384,403 km.The Moon has no atmosphere; without an atmosphere, the Moon has nothing to protect it from meteorite impacts, and thus the surface of the Moon is covered with impact craters, both large and small. The Moon also has no active tectonic or volcanic activity, so the erosive effects of atmospheric weathering, tectonic shifts, and volcanic upheavals that tend to erase and reform the Earth's surface features are not at work on the Moon. In fact, even tiny surface features such as the footprint left by an astronaut in the lunar soil are likely to last for millions of years, unless obliterated by a chance meteorite strike. The surface gravity of the Moon is about one-sixth that of the Earth's. Therefore, a man weighing 82 kilograms on Eart