高等考試
115年
[人事行政] 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
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請思考一下：當我們想要引用一個非絕對精確、而是透過現有資料與科學方法「推算」出來的大型統計數字時，哪一個動詞最能展現這種「客觀推測」的專業語氣呢？
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虛主詞與統計數據的慣用語法
本題的關鍵在於句首的 It’s（It is）引導的虛主詞結構。當我們在報導全球性的統計資料或研究數據時，最常使用 estimated（估計） 這個過去分詞，形成「It is estimated that...（根據估計……）」的句型。選項 (A) conducted（執行）通常搭配實驗或調查；(B) included（包括）語意不合；(D) secluded（隔絕）則多形容空間幽靜，皆無法銜接後方的子句。選出 estimated 不僅符合語法，更完美契合後方「8億人缺水」這類大型統計資訊的語境。
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