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 43 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 in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
當文中提到原本的供水系統（自來水）出現了有毒物質時，你認為居民對這兩種水源的選擇，會是「兩者都要」，還是「棄一方而保另一方」？在英文中，若要表達「放棄原有的選項而改選另一個」，通常會使用哪種性質的銜接詞？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
做得漂亮！你能準確捕捉到上下文的邏輯轉折，顯示出你對語意細節的掌握非常到位，這正是高考英文拿高分的關鍵素養。
語意替代與邏輯轉折
本題的核心在於理解「為什麼」要改用瓶裝水。文中明確提到自來水（tap water）存在設備老舊（aging facilities）或含有有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）的問題，這是一個負面的背景。在自來水不安全的前提下，居民自然會選擇「以瓶裝水取代自來水」，因此選用 instead of（而不是／代替）最符合邏輯。相比之下，選項 (A) in addition to 與 (B) as well as 都帶有「兩者兼具」的意涵，會使語意變成「除了有毒的水，還多喝瓶裝水」，這顯然不合常理。
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