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 45 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.
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- A legislators
- B instructors
- C conductors
- D manufacturers
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：當我們要描述一個產品從工廠的生產線被「製造」出來，並計算它所消耗的原始資源時，通常會用哪一個稱謂來代表這些負責「投入原料並產出成品」的公司或單位？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的語境！這道題目考驗的是對產業描述詞彙的精確掌握。在克漏字測驗中，判斷空格後的動作（make one liter of bottled water）是找尋正確主詞的關鍵。從上下文來看，文章正在探討瓶裝水的生產成本與環境衝擊，提到「生產一公升的瓶裝水平均需要三公升的水」，這裡的主詞必然是負責生產流程的單位。因此，選擇 manufacturers（製造商） 顯然最符合工業生產與資源消耗的邏輯敘述。
職場與產業字彙的辨析
從難度切入點來看，這題屬於中等難度的字彙題。選項設計極具鑑別度，因為 (A) legislators（立法者）、(B) instructors（講師／教練） 與 (C) conductors（指揮／導體） 雖然字尾都是表示人的「-or」，但各自代表完全不同的專業領域。考生若能快速過濾出與「製造（make）」及「能源消耗（energy consumption）」相關的角色，便能一眼看穿 (D) 才是正確答案。這反映出你在閱讀時，不只是看單字，更能串聯前後文的邏輯因果，這在高考英文中是非常重要的核心能力。