soal argumentative kelas 12
soal argumentative kelas 12
The COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the whole world, including Indonesia, not only poses a
threat but also provides opportunities for a number of business sectors. One of the big …… (1) in this
pandemic era is the business sectors related to online and information technology, also known as IT.
Policy observer and strategic communication from Daegu University, South Korea, Prof. Gil H.
Park assessed that information technology-based or online economic activities will play a more …. (2)
role in post-COVID-19 conditions.
According to him, this pandemic is not just a threat but an opportunity for the service sector to
…. (3) and transform in the economic sector, and the government needs to help more business
activities and the information technology-based economy. It needs to be done considering that
information technology-based or online economic activities will play a more important role in the
future.
1. a. opportunity. b. opportunities
c. opportunely d. opportunist
2. a. important. b. importance
c. importances d. importantly
3. a. adapt b. adapts
c. adapted d. adapting
Online Businesses
One of the factors that makes online businesses successful in the pandemic era is the
activityactivity of working, studying, and worshiping from home or known as work from home (WFH)
which is carried out by everyone in order to avoid infection.
Senior Director Office Services Colliers International Indonesia (property consultant), Bagus
Adikusumo estimates that WFH pattern will become more commonplace in its implementation by a
number of corporate offices due to the impact of COVID-19, and is expected to continue before the
pandemic can be handled.
According to him, if this WFH continues long enough due to the protracted spread of the
pandemic, then it will become a protocol that is carried out by a company to its employees. It is
possible that in the future WFH will become an attractive business model to continue so that there
will be various adjustments to the company's work pattern.
The same thing was conveyed by Indef's Associate Economic Researcher, Muhammad Zulfikar
Rakhmat, who considered that if you look at it from the positive side, the COVID-19 pandemic has
taught all parties how to do activities online.
According to him, now everyone can learn and know how the work system, education and a
number of business activities can be done online, including activities from home. In the future, many
people both in Indonesia and the world will work and do activities online, because the COVID-19
pandemic has opened up insight that several activities including business can be made possible
through digitalization.
4. One of the factors that makes online businesses successful in the pandemic era is the activity of
working, … (line 1). The antonym of the bold word is ....
a. failed. b. succeed
c. prosperous. d. wealthy
5. …… in order to avoid infection (line 3). The antonym of the underlined word is ...
a. evade b. dodge
c. shun. d. face
6. ………, and is expected to continue after the pandemic can be handled (line 6). The antonym of the
underlined word is ....
a. stop b. keep
c. pursue d. close
7. According to him, if this WFH continues long enough due to the protracted spread of the
pandemic, … (line 8). The antonym of the underlined word is ....
a. lengthy b. lasting
c. short d. extended
8. It is possible that in the future WFH will become an attractive business model …. (line 10).
a. real b. likely
c. factual d. impossible
9. ……. that several activities including business can be made possible through digitalization
(line 18). The underlined word has the same meaning with....
a. some b. many
Many sectors in online business makes business actors who want to …. (10) need to guess what
online businesses are profitable in the COVID-19 era. Entrepreneur and founder of the Bahaso
startup platform, Tyovan Ari Widagdo assesses that there are several startup business sectors that
have the opportunity to be popular and profitable in the current pandemic era, such as e-commerce,
edutech, and health.
According to Tyovan, the startup business sectors, precisely because of this pandemic,
experienced a significant increase in business where online health platforms such as Halodoc
became popular because it …. (11) the public who only wanted to consult and diagnose online
health.
The e-commerce business is also a major …. (12) for the public in transacting during this
pandemic, considering that people are afraid to shop directly so that purchases of some necessities
are made online through e-commerce platforms.
Besides that, the agricultural sector such as the TaniHub platform has also become popular,
then other startup businesses that have hit the ground running in the Covid-19 era are the education
technology or edutech sector such as Ruangguru, Zenius. Tyovan said that it was now impossible for
students to study at school due to the pandemic, so they studied online at their homes.
The popularity of the edutech sector will not stop in the pandemic era, considering that
businesses in this industry will continue to …. (14) in a pandemic condition where people are forced
to interact with technology.
10. a. invest
b. invests
c. invested.
d. investing
11. a. help
b. helps
c. helped
d. helping
12. a. need
b. needs
c. needed
d. needing
13. a. popular
b. annoying
c. hated
d. rejected
14. a. regress
b. complicate
c. weaken
d. develop