Soal bing
The used of modern chemical drugs and herbal medicines including herbs,
stimultaneously to treat certain diseases must be exercised carefully. Random combined use can
lead to health worsening. Clinical trials showed the use of simvatin as anti-cholesterol drugs or a
mixture of guava leaves, Javanese turmeric (temulawak) roots and Dutch teak leaves as
traditional medicine gave good results if they are used separately. But, if combined, the results
are harmful. Similar harms happen in the combined use of metformin and black tea to treat
diabetes. If both are used individually, they can reduce blood sugar levels in large quantities.
However, if combined, the decrease in blood sugar content is actually very small.
As for herbal medicines, besides being absorsed more slowly by the body, sometimes
they are binding substance form chemical drugs. As a result, the effect of chemical drug is not
optimal. Ginseng should not be combined with heart drugs because it will worsen the heart
condition. In addition, garlic, which is also an anticoagulant herbal medicine, should not be
combined with chemical drugs such as acetasol or clopldropil because it will cause bleeding.
Indonesians know and realize the benefit of medicinal plants for a long time. However,
the traditional Indonesian medicine industry has not developed. Currently there are 6
phytopharmacologically based medicines and 31 standardized herbal medicines. The herbs in
Indonesia are thousands in number. Jamu is the lowest level in the grouping of the Indonesian
traditional medicines, followed by standardized herbal medicines and phytopharmacologically
based medicine as the highest level. To improve the status of herbal medicines to standardized
herbal medicines, there must be a non-clinical test. To be phytopharmacologically based
medicines, clinical trials and non-clinical trials must be carried out on these medicines. Because
of this, many herbal producers are reluctant to improve the status of their products because even
without such complicated producers, the herbal has already sold well. Manufacturers will only
increase the status of their products to standardized herbal medicines or phytopharmacologically
based medicines to ensure the safety of their products to consumers and export interests.
1. Which is the most appropriate and general conclusion of the passage?
a. Indonesia has already standardized herbal medicines pharmacologically.
b. Consuming herbs and chemical drugs together bar the potential to improve one’s health.
c. Use of herbal and chemical drugs in combination must be stirctly based on prescription.
d. The process of standardizin herbal medicines is complicated and costly and it takes a long
time.
e. Herbal medicines that bind subtances to chemical drugs are the cause of the reduced
effect of chemical drugs.
Artinya: kesimpulan mana yang paling tepat dan umum dari teks?
Jawaban: B
Pembahasan: Memahami keseluruhan bacaan dengan cara menentukan main idea dari tiap
paragraf, kemudian membuat kesimpulan secara menyeluruh.
2. Who needs to read the passage?
a. Patients.
b. Doctors.
c. Nurses.
d. Pharmacists.
e. Researchers.
Artinya: Siapa yang perlu membaca teks ini?
Jawab: A
Pembahasan: Teks ini memberikan informasi secara sederhana mengenai bahaya mencampur
konsumsi obat herbal dan kimia dengan memberikan contoh yang mudah dimengerti.
Informasi ini akan sangat berguna bagi pasien.
“The economic history of the United States”, one scholar has written, “is the history of
the rise and development of the capitalistic system. “The colonists of the eighteenth century
pushed forward what those of the seventeenth century had begun: the expansion and elaboration
of an economy born in the great age of capitalist expansion. Our excellent natural resources
paved the way for the development of abundant capital to increase our growth. Capital includes
the tools-such as machines, vehicles, and buildings – that make the outputs of labor and
resources more valuable. But it also includes the funds necessary to buy those tools. If a society
had to consume everything it produced just to stay alive, nothing could be put aside to increase
future productions. But if a farmer can grow more than his family needs to eat, he can use the
surplus as seed to increase the next crop, or to feed workers who build tractors. This process of
capital accumulation was aided in the American economy by our cultural heritage. Saving played
an important role in the European tradition; it contributed to American’s motivation to put
something aside today for the tools to buy tomorrow.
3. In line 6 the word ‘it’ refers to….
a. Growth
b. Resources
c. Labor
d. Capital
e. Machines
Jawaban: D
Pembahasan: Perhatikan kata sebelumnya: Capital includes the tools-such as machines,
vehicles, and buildings – that make the outputs of labor and resources more valuable.
Pada kalimat tersebut, subyek yang dibahas adalah Capital. Sehingga kata ganti ‘it’ merujuk
pada Capital.
4. The word ‘it’ in line 11 refers to….
a. European tradition
b. Saving played
c. Capital accumulation
d. Capital
e. American economy
Jawaban: B
Pembahasan: Perhatikan kalimat yang memuat kata ‘it’ tersebut: Saving played an important
role in the European tradition; it contributed to….
Pada konteks ini ‘it’ yang dimaksudkan adalah Saving played.
