高等考試
115年
[一般行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
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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.
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- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後面的資訊「超過八億人（more than 800 million people）」，這是一個龐大且難以精確點算的全球性統計數字。在正式英文寫作中，當我們要介紹一個經由研究機構統計、且具有推測性質的數據時，通常會使用哪一個動詞來表達「根據資料推算出來的結果」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！這題你能答對，代表你對於英文寫作中「引用數據」的慣用語感非常敏銳。這是在閱讀測驗與完型填空題型中非常關鍵的能力。
數據推估的常見表達
本題的破題關鍵在於後方的子句提到「全球有超過八億人（more than 800 million people）沒有安全飲用水」。在學術、新聞或報導文學中，當我們要引述一個經過計算或統計得出的概略數字時，最標準且道地的用法就是 It is estimated that...（據估計...）。選項 (A) conducted（執行）、(B) included（包含）與 (D) secluded（隔絕）在語意上都無法與後面的大數據事實契合，且不符合這裡的被動句型結構。
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