高等考試
115年
[化學工程] 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
思路引導 VIP
請試著回想，當我們在新聞報導中看到關於全球人口、未來趨勢或是一個難以一一數清的大量數字時，報導者通常會用什麼樣的動作，來表示這個數字是由專家「計算並預測」出來的呢？
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數據呈現與被動語態的搭配
恭喜你精準地選出了答案！這顯示你對英文新聞或報導中常見的「數據表達」非常有語感。文中提到全世界有超過八億人缺乏安全飲水，這是一個基於統計與推算的客觀事實。在英文寫作中，當我們要引導一個研究數據或大數據統計時，最標準且專業的句型就是使用 "It is estimated that..."（據估計...）。這不僅符合文法上的虛主詞結構，在語意上也完美契合了「無法獲得確切總數、但有研究根據」的語境。
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