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HESI A2 READING COMPREHENSION PASSAGES 2021 FOR V1 AND V2
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Terms in this set (16)
V2 V1
Bicycles Eating
Changing Time Food
Glass Game of Bridge
Healthcare Getting a Good Night's Sleep Chronic Insomnia
Homonyms Phobia
Isaac Asimov Rainforest
Jazz Safe Driving
Laughter The Water Cycle
Lightning Voice
Mr. Rogers White Elephant
Nurseries The Golden Bridge
Rainforest
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1. According to Amazon Rainforest
paragraph 1, which of About 6% of the earth is covered by rainforests.
the following is NOT The largest rainforest in the world is theAmazon
mentioned about the Basin, which stretches over 2.3 million square
Amazon miles in nine different South American countries.
Rainforest? This area is double the length of all the other
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Its precipitation remaining rainforests in the world. Brazil contains
60%of the Amazonian rainforest, since it lies at the
2. How can you mouth of the river Amazon. This river is the
describe the Amazon second largest in the world and contains more
rainforest? (Choose 2 than one-fifth of the world's fresh water. The
answers) Amazon rainforest is a type of wet broadleaf
(A)It rains all time there forest. The weather there is very humid and warm
so the forest is always as it rains quite a bit. Because of the high rainfall,
green. the forest is very rich and green. The tree leaves
(C)The plants are are pointed and narrow so that the raindrops can
shaped so that easily drop off wet plants. This
rainwater can pour off tropical rainforest has more living species than the
them. entire European continent. There are over 400
types of insects living in one single rain forest tree
3. Which of the for a total of 2.5 million species. One square
following is true about kilometer of rainforest may contain over 75,000
the Amazon Basin? types of trees and approximately 438,000
It is more than one-fifth different kinds of plants, which comes to a total of
of all the other 90,000 tons of greenery overall. The Amazon
rainforests in the world. rainforest is home to 2,000 birds and mammals,
with one in every five birds in the world living
4. Look at the end of there. Local farmers have lived off this rich and
paragraph 2. What diverse land for thousands of years. They have
does the author refer been able to find food and water here without
to when he says "rich destroying the land. The Kayapo people of Brazil
and diverse land" at farm in an environmentally-friendly way. Instead of
the beginning of chemicals, they use burned wood to enrich the
paragraph 3? soil, and plant banana trees, which attract wasps.
2,000 birds and These wasps then feed on leafcutter ants and get
mammals in the rid of these harmful insects. The rainforest also
Amazon rainforest offers a lot of tropical fruits, such as bananas and
coconuts, as food. Cinnamon is made from the
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5. What does the bark of a rainforest tree. Amazonian Indians use
sentence "people of the fruit and stem of the Buruti plant as a drink, to
Brazil farm in an make bread and to build houses. Many other
environmentally plants are used as medicine. But the Amazon
friendly way" mean in rainforest is in very big danger of disappearing.
paragraph 3? 9,169 square miles of forest have been cut down in
They do not poison the 2003 in Brazil alone. An area of the size of a
soil when farming. football field is burned down basically every
minute, which means that the rain forest may be
6. Which rainforest gone by the year 2030.The dangers related to this
plant has more than type of activity are obvious. Trees take in
one use? poisonous carbon dioxide from the air and give
The Bruti plant off oxygen. There is more oxygen and less carbon
dioxide around a rainforest. When trees are cut
7. What is the biggest down, however, the amount of carbon dioxide
problem related to the increases, and the air gets warmer. This leads to
disappearance of the global warming, which is extremely harmful to the
rainforest? environment. It is estimated that the burning of
Cutting down trees Brazilian rainforests alone produces 200 million
metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. 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.
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