高等考試
115年
[公平交易管理] 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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請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 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.
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 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
當你在文章中看到一個非常巨大的全球統計數字（例如「八億人」），而這個數字顯然無法透過挨家挨戶點名來獲得精確總數時，我們會傾向用什麼樣的詞彙來描述這個「推算出來的結果」？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你準確鎖定了語意核心！這題考驗的是對客觀數據陳述的慣用語感。在描述全球性統計資料（如「八億人口」）時，作者通常無法給出絕對精確的數字，因此最常使用 It is estimated that...（據估計……） 這種句型來引出推估的量值。這不僅是文法上的被動用法，更是學術與報導寫作中展現嚴謹度的標準表達方式。
語意辨析與數據呈現
從選項來看，(A) conducted 常搭配研究或實驗（conduct a survey）；(B) included 表示包含，放在此結構語意不通；(D) secluded 則是形容詞，意指隱蔽、與世隔絕的。本題的鑑別度在於學生能否區分「事實陳述」與「數據推估」的動詞搭配。雖然句子看似簡單，但對於考生在壓力下是否能快速排除形似或意思相近的動詞（如與 calculated 混淆），是一個很好的基本功檢測點。你的判斷非常果斷，顯示你對常見的新聞與科普英文寫作風格有相當好的掌握。