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Durian

Durian is the name of tropical vegetation which comes from southeast asia. It is also the name of fruit. This name is taken from its skin characteristics which is similar with “duri” or thorn. Its famous name is King of Fruit. Durian is a controversial fruit because many people like it but many of them hate its smell.

Because the strong smell of it, and it tends to smell rotten, some transportation companies forbid people bring durian, for example in the plane, public transportation or into the hotel. However, many people still like durian. Durian is quite expensive.

Durian has various kinds. There are 20 species of durian in Indonesia. Nine of them can be eaten. Durian fruit is eaten when it is in the fresh condition. In general this fruit is sweet and very nutritious because it consists of carbohydrate, fat, protein, and mineral.

In the harvest season of durian, this fruit is everywhere, especially in its production centre region. Traditionally, the flesh of the fruit can be cooked with sugar and it becomes “lempok or dodol” or it can be fermented to be tempoyak. The taste of tempoyak is sour and it is usually eaten with sambal or to be additional ingredient to cook fish.

Sometimes, durian can be mixed with other traditional cake ingredients like gelamai or jenang. It is also mixed in the desert with glutinous rice. In this modern era, the taste of durian is also added in candy, ice cream, milk, and other kind of fresh drink.

The seeds of durian can be eaten as snack after being boiled or roasted. The raw seed cannot be eaten because it is poisonous. It consists of cyclopropene, a poisonous material.

Some of durians are sometimes used as traditional medicine materials. Its root is used as fever medicine. The leaves can be mixed with Acorus calamus leaves and it is used to cure infection on nails. The skin of the fruit can used to cure skin diseases and constipation. Some of Javanese societies use the skin of durian to shoe mosquito and put it on the corner of the room. The durian fruit is a good source of antioxidant vitamin-C. It can help the human body develop resistance against infectious disease.

Moreover, it contains minerals like manganese, copper, iron and magnesium which is utilized by the body for the antioxidant enzyme. Copper is needed in the production of red blood cells. Iron is needed for red blood cell formation. Fresh durian fruit is the source of potassium which is an important electrolyte inside cells and body fluids that control heart rate and blood pressure. Further, it also contains high levels of essential amino acid, tryptophan which metabolizes into serotonin and melatonin in human body.

Durian flesh is also exported in the form of canned durian. In Bangkok, durian paste is mixed with pumpkin. Malays keep the flesh in salt in order it can still be eaten with rice, even though it has been a year. They always their own way to enjoy durian.

1.    Beside consist of carbohydrate, durian also consist …..

a.    Fat

b.    Vitamin a

c.     Vitamin B12

d.    Fiber

e.    Glucose

2.    “…it becomes “lempok or dodol” …”

The word “it” refer to

a.     Durian’s tree

b.    Durian’s seed

c.    Durian’s flesh

d.    Durian’s root

e.    Durian’s leaf

3.    What will happen if we eat uncooked seed of durian

a.     We will be poisoned because the large of seed too big

b.    We will be poisoned because the taste is not delicious

c.     We will be poisoned because that’s just for animal

d.    We will be poisoned because It consists of cyclopropene

e.    We will be poisoned because it concists of isomerization

4.    What kind of mineral in durian which needed in the production of red blood cells?

a.     Iron

b.    copper

c.     manganese

d.    kalsium

e.    magnesium

5.    what is the main idea of the last paragraph

a.     durian flesh

b.    exported durian

c.     canned durian

d.    durian in Bangkok

e.    the ways to enjoy durian

Human body is actually a living machine and is like all other machines. This living machine needs fuel to supply it with energy. The fuel is provided by the food which we eat. However do we know how much we need to stay healthy?

The energy value of food is usually measured in calories. A calorie is the amount of heat which is required to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree C. The number of calories which people need per day varies. It depends on the activity which the people are involved in. For example; people will need more calories for standing than for sitting, people need more for running than for walking, etc.The energy which is provided by food is in the form of three kinds of chemical substances. They are carbohydrate, protein and fat. Carbohydrate provides 8.8 calories per gram (cal/gm) of energy, protein 4.0 cal/gm and fat 8.0 cal/gm. Each food contains different proportion of these substances.These three chemical substances are all important for body staying healthy.

1.     how can we fuel the energy of human body?

a.     We can do exercise

b.    We can eat

c.     We can read

d.    We can find it

e.    We can buy it

2.     How many calories which people need per day?

a.     8,8 calories

b.    8,0 calories

c.     4,0 calories

d.    Depend of the human

e.    Depend of the parents of human

3.     what is the best tittle for that text?

a.     Human

b.    Human energy

c.     Kind of energy

d.    Energy for human

e.    Human body energy

4.     which will need more calories, studying, sleeping, listening, or talking?

a.     Studying, talking

b.    Studying, listening

c.     Talking, listening

d.    Talking, sleeping

e.    Listening, sleeping

5.     How much fat provides calories for human body?

a.     8,8 cal/ g

b.    6,7 cal/ g

c.     8,0 cal/ g

d.    4,5 cal/ g

e.    1,0 cal/ g