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 44 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 originates from
- B pours into
- C fluctuates among
- D appears in
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：當我們在描述某種商品（如礦泉水）與它在自然界中「最初被取出的那個地方」之間的關係時，你會使用哪種性質的動詞來表達這種「從無到有、從產地而來」的聯繫？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學你能精準選出 (A) originates from，代表你對文章脈絡與動詞片語的搭配（collocation）有很敏銳的直覺！這題的解題關鍵在於理解主詞「瓶裝水（bottled water）」與後方提到的「湖泊（lake）」、「泉水（spring）」或「地下含水層（underground aquifer）」之間的關係。這段文字正在討論瓶裝水對環境的影響，並指出其水源的產地，而 originate from（源自於）正是用來描述事物起源或發源地的標準用法。
水源產地的語意邏輯
從國考命題的角度來看，這題的鑑別度在於測試考生是否能辨識正確的「方向性」。選項 (B) pours into（倒入）的邏輯剛好相反，瓶裝水不會倒入湖泊；(C) fluctuates among（在...之間波動）多用於數據或情緒的起伏，與水源地無關。在高考等級的英文測驗中，這類題目考驗的是考生能否在理解「地下含水層」等專業詞彙的同時，快速捕捉到「來源」的敘述框架。你能順利避開干擾選項，顯示你的語彙深度與邏輯判斷非常紮實。