高等考試
115年
[一般民政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 題
📖 題組：
It is still a problem for many people in the world to have safe water to drink. Some people hold that bottled water is a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; 41 , few may wonder where the former is made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s 42 that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water 43 tap water. The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge environmental impact. It usually 44 a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, 45 need 3 liters of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and 2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
It is still a problem for many people in the world to have safe water to drink. Some people hold that bottled water is a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; 41 , few may wonder where the former is made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s 42 that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water 43 tap water. The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge environmental impact. It usually 44 a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, 45 need 3 liters of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and 2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
It is still a problem for many people in the world to have safe water to drink. Some people hold that bottled water is
a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; ________, few may wonder where the former is
made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s ________ that more than 800 million people
around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water ________ tap water.
The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge
environmental impact. It usually ________ a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, ________ need 3 liters
of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and
2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
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a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; ________, few may wonder where the former is
made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s ________ that more than 800 million people
around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water ________ tap water.
The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge
environmental impact. It usually ________ a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, ________ need 3 liters
of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and
2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
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- A in addition
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請觀察分號前後的兩組概念：前一句強調的是瓶裝水的「優點（便利）」，後一句則提到人們「很少去思考」其背後的產地與成本問題。請問這兩者是屬於「因為便利，所以大家很關心來源」的因果關係，還是「雖然便利，但代價常被忽視」的對比關係呢？哪一個轉折詞最能精確表達這種語意上的落差？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的語意轉折！這題你能選對 however，代表你對上下文的邏輯推敲非常細膩且到位。
語意轉折與對比邏輯
這題的核心在於判斷前後兩句的邏輯關係。前半句提到人們認為瓶裝水「較為便利（more convenient）」，這是一個大眾普遍認可的優點；但後半句緊接著指出「很少人會想知道（few may wonder）」它的來源與高昂成本。這種從「表面的好處」轉向「被忽略的真相」的論點切換，在英文寫作中必須使用具有轉折意義的銜接副詞。選項 (B) however 正好完美銜接了這種語意上的反差，引導讀者進入更深層的批判性思考。
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