HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES NEW

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HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES NEW

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Question 1: How often is the summer olympics game played

Answer:

every 4 years

Question 2: Game of Bridge

The ebb and flow of laughter and silence fills the room as four old friends gather to engage in a round of Bridge playing. For the beginner, Bridge can be complicated, but with time, effort, and a good teacher, even the novice can become proficient. Composed of two main parts, bidding and playing, Bridge requires the player's undivided attention. The dealer deals the entire deck of playing cards evenly between the for players, with each person receiving thirteen cards. In the bidding portion of the game, the four suits of cards in the deck are ranked highest to lowest as follows: spades, hearts, diamonds, and finally clubs. However, during play all the suits of cards are considered equals, and they go from highest to lowest from the ace being high to the two card being low. The highest number of tricks wins. A trick is one card played by each player for a total of four. After the lead player lays down

Answer:

• The author wants the reader to feel

Confident and excited about learning the game of bridge

• Throughout this passage the word suit means

Any of the four sets into which a deck of cards is divided.

• In the passage, a trick is described as

A collection of one card played by each of four players.

• The passage explicitly states

That the highest card within the "trump" suit always wins the trick.

• The passage implies that

Playing bridge requires concentration.

Question 3: The Bicycle

Today, bicycles are so common that it's hard to believe they haven't always been around. But two hundred years ago, bicycles didn't even exist, and the ?rst bicycle, invented in Germany in 1818, was nothing like our bicycles today. It was made of wood and didn't even have pedals.Since then, however, numerous innovations and improvements in design have made the bicycle one of the most popular means of recreation and transportation around the world. In 1839, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, a Scottish blacksmith, dramatically improved upon the original bicycle design. Macmillan's machine had tires with iron rims to keep them from getting worn down. He also used foot-operated cranks like pedals, so his bicycle could be ridden at a quick pace. It didn't look much like a modern bicycle, though, because its back wheel was substantially larger than its front wheel. In 1861, the French Michaux brothers took the evolution

Answer:

• The main idea of this passage is best expressed in which sentence?

Sentence (4): Since then, however, numerous innovations and improvements in design have made the bicycle one of the most popular means of recreation and transportation around the world.

• Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A Ride through the History of Bicycles

• Which sentence best expresses the main idea of paragraph 3?

Macmillan made important changes in bicycle design.

• An innovation, as it is used in Sentence (4), is

a new way of doing something.

• Revolutionized, as it is used in Sentence (10), most nearly means

changed drastically.

• The word prone, as it is used in Sentence (15), means

lying down.

• Which of the following sentences from the passage represents the writer's opinion?

Sentence (1) The safety bicycle would look familiar to today's cyclists.

• Sentence (8), "It didn't look much like a modern bicycle, though, because its back wheel was

substantially larger than its front wheel," follows which pattern?opinion, fact

• Macmillan added iron rims to the tires of his bicycle to

Macmillan added iron rims to the tires of his bicycle to

• The ?rst person to use a gear system on bicycles was

James Starley.

• Starley's addition of wire spokes made the bicycle

lighter.Question 4: 4. The author seems to:

• Prefer low pitched tones.
• Be an experienced public speaker.
• Prefer shrill, grating, and brassy voice.
• Have no particular reactions to different voices.

Answer:

• Prefer low pitched tones

Question 5: 2. What is stated in this paragraph?

• Some men have harsh voices.
• Relaxed people often have harsh voices.
• Women make less appealing political candidates.
• Not everyone finds a harsh voice irritating.

Answer:

• Women make less appealing political candidates

Question 6: Laughter

Answer:

• The passage indicates

Native American humor deserves more attention

• The passage infers that

Native American humor is often overlooked

• The author's reason for writing this passage

To persuade people to take a broad view of Native Americans

4. The author seems to favor:

Research into Native American humor Question 7: 1. When taking a subjective examination, you will find questions like.Definitions

• Compared to objective exams, essay test contain

Fewer questions

• From the article the reader can conclude that a test containing true-false questions is called

Objective

• Compared to objective exams, subjective tests contain

Fewer questions

• In answering subjective questions the student should

Keep it brief and specific

• When taking an exam, you should divide your time

To allow more time for the difficult questions

• In the above passage, the word "subjective" refers to test questions that

Require you to write your own answer

Answer:

Voice What effect does your voice have on others? Does it persuade or irritate, attract or repel? One of the worst qualities is harshness. If you ever get the feeling that people are uncomfortable when you speak, it may be that your harsh tones are jarring their eardrums. your voice will sound unpleasant if it is shrill, grating, hard, piercing, brassy, to loud, or too nasal. Harsh voice qualities usually come from too much tension in the throat and jaw. Tension tightens muscles and blocks the relaxed voice tones essential to a pleasing impression. Because tension occurs in higher pitched voices, women tend to have shriller voices than men, which usually makes them less desirable public speakers, newscasters, or political candidates.

Question 8: Circus

Answer:

• Converting means running/jumping

• Recommends attending the circus

• There was a great extravaganza

• The roman stayed extravaganza

• Gave child an experience