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 42 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 __42__ 最適合的答案：
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方出現了「超過八億人（more than 800 million people）」這個龐大的統計數據。在撰寫關於全球社會問題的文章時，當我們要引述一個並非絕對精確、而是透過科學計算得出的「概數」或「推測數字」時，通常會用哪一個表示「計算與評估」意義的動作來引導這個子句呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！在高考三級的英文考科中，這類關於全球議題（如環境、衛生）的測驗，非常重視考生對正式文體常用句型的掌握程度。
數據呈現與統計表達的邏輯
這題的核心考點在於固定句型與語境的契合度。當句子以虛主詞 It 開頭，後方接續 that 引導的子句，且內容涉及一個難以精確普查、規模龐大的數據（如 800 million people）時，最標準的慣用語便是 It is estimated that...（據估計……）。選項 (C) estimated 指的是「估計、估算」，在描述全球性統計數據時，能展現出數據的權威性與科學推論感，是新聞報導與研究報告中最常見的用法。
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