HESI Reading Passages

Contents Changing Time/Daylight Savings............................................................................................ 2 The Bicycle......................................................................... ...

Contents Changing Time/Daylight Savings............................................................................................ 2 The Bicycle............................................................................................................................... 4 Tesla ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Exams ....................................................................................................................................... 7 The White Elephant.................................................................................................................. 9 Healing.....................................................................................................................................10 Food.........................................................................................................................................12 Eating.......................................................................................................................................13 The Game of Bridge................................................................................................................14 The Golden Gate Bridge .........................................................................................................15 Voice ........................................................................................................................................16 The Electoral College..............................................................................................................17 Homonyms ..............................................................................................................................18 Getting A Goodnight Sleep ....................................................................................................19 Florence Nightingale...............................................................................................................20 Facts About the One Dollar Bill..............................................................................................21 Phobias....................................................................................................................................22 Factory.....................................................................................................................................23 Safe Driving.............................................................................................................................24 The Water Cycle ......................................................................................................................25 Amazon Rainforest .................................................................................................................26 All the Jazz ..............................................................................................................................28 Moon........................................................................................................................................30 North American.......................................................................................................................32 Frank Lloyd Wright .................................................................................................................34 Glass........................................................................................................................................36 Nile River.................................................................................................................................38 Violence...................................................................................................................................40 HESI A2 READING PASSAGES Changing Time/Daylight Savings It is a well-known fact that it takes the Earth approximately 365 days to move around the sun. At the same time. the Earth revolves or spins around itself over the course of 24 hours, which explains why there is day and night. One half of the Earth is always facing the Sun and the other half is facing away from it. As a result, there are different time zones dividing the globe, moving suddenly from one time zone into the other, as when flying for example from Asia to North America, causes jet lag. People feel tired, they wake up suddenly during the night and cannot go back to sleep. It takes time to get used to a new time zone. Another thing to consider is the slight tilting of the Earth towards the sun. The Earth does not stand straight but leans a little to one side