Read the following passages and determine the author’s implied topic and main idea. Passage C The Aswan High Dam, built in Egypt with Russian support, was supposed to provide hydroelectric power and to increase Egypt’s food supply by controlling the unpredictable Nile River. The project meant that great art treasures were flooded as submerged land was drained for cultivation. However, only one-tenth of an acre of land was made available for each person added to Egypt’s population during the period of construction. One result of the dam was that the Nile no longer flooded the delta farmlands annually. These annual floods served to restore the farmland fertility with deposited silt. This no longer the case, the quality of the farmland decreased. The dam also cut off the nutrients that had been washed to the Mediterranean Sea as a result of the annual floodings. Because of this, or the change in the salinity of the sea that the dam produced, the sardine catch dropped from 18,000 tons per year to 500 tons per year. The stable lake created by the dam allowed aquatic snails to flourish. The snails serve as an intermediate host to a blood fluke that bores into humans causing the dreaded disease, schistosomiasis. The construction of that dam had important political implications at the time.

Read the following passage and determine the author’s main idea. Passage B Child labor is in great demand for several reasons. Children are more docile than adults, easier to discipline, and more often too frightened to complain. Their small frames and nimble fingers are considered an asset for certain kinds of work. Although only 7 to 10 years old, they are forced to work 12 to 14 hours a day. Most important, child labor is quite cheap; children are generally paid less than one-third of the adult wage. Not surprisingly, when children are given jobs, their parents may lose theirs.

Read the following passage and determine the author’s main idea? Passage A The concept and practice of group harmony or wa is what most dramatically differentiates Japanese baseball from the American game. Contract holdouts for additional money, for example, are rare in Japan. A player usually takes what the club decides to give him, and that’s that. Demanding more money is evidence that a player is putting his own interests before those of the team. Temper tantrums—along with practical joking, bickering, complaining, and other norms of American clubhouse life—are viewed in Japan as unwelcome intrusions into the team’s collective peace of mind.

Read the following passage and determine the author’s topic. Passage A The concept and practice of group harmony or Wa is what most dramatically differentiates Japanese baseball from the American game. Contract holdouts for additional money, for example, are rare in Japan. A player usually takes what the club decides to give him, and that’s that. Demanding more money is evidence that a player is putting his own interests before those of the team. Temper tantrums—along with practical joking, bickering, complaining, and other norms of American clubhouse life—are viewed in Japan as unwelcome intrusions into the team’s collective peace of mind.

The nurse is caring for a client who is two days postoperative from oral surgery. The client asks why a mechanical soft diet has been ordered. What is the nurse’s best response?

To ensure all inpatients receive adequate care, The Joint Commission specifies that nutrition screening be conducted at what time during hospital admission?

In the United States, most dietary sodium comes from 

The nurse is assessing a client with obesity. What is the first step in the nursing assessment of an obese client?

The most convenient way to measure body fatness is

A nurse is reviewing the laboratory results of a patient diagnosed with Type II Diabetes (DM2). The patient’s most recent HbA1c level is 8.5%, and the fasting blood glucose level is 150 mg/dL. Which of the following nursing interventions should the nurse prioritize to improve the patient’s diabetes management?