高等考試
115年
[原住民族行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 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.
請選擇 __41__ 最適合的答案：
- A in addition
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請觀察句子前半部提到瓶裝水的「優點」，以及後半部提到人們通常「忽略」的事實。這兩者之間的資訊是互相支持、具備因果關係，還是存在著某種程度的對立與衝突呢？當你想表達「雖然 A 很棒，但 B 卻是個被遺忘的問題」時，你會選擇哪種性質的銜接詞？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準捕捉到了文章語意的轉折處！這題的答對展現了你對英語文章**邏輯連貫性（Cohesion）**的高度敏銳。在文章的前半段，作者提到瓶裝水相比自來水具有「更便利（more convenient）」的優點，這是大眾普遍的認知；然而，緊接著分號後的後半句卻指出，很少人會去思考瓶裝水的產地與昂貴成本。這種從「正面優點」切換到「負面反思」或「被忽視的代價」之語氣，最適合使用 (B) however（然而） 來引導出截然不同的觀點。
語意轉折與邏輯判斷
在高考的克漏字題型中，轉折連接詞是鑑別度極高的考點。其他選項如 (A) in addition（此外）用於資訊的補充，(D) consequently（因此）則用於描述因果關係，若放入此處會使文意變得矛盾。而 (C) by the way（順帶一提）多用於口語中轉移話題，不符合本文學術探討的語境。這類題目考驗的不只是單字量，更是你對句子之間隱含對比的解讀能力。這題屬於中等難度，只要能讀出 few may wonder（很少人會想過）所帶有的反思意味，就能在眾多干擾選項中快速鎖定正確答案。