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 43 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 __43__ 最適合的答案：
- A in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察空格後方的那個句子，作者特別提到了自來水含有『有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）』。當我們發現原本使用的資源變得有害時，在行為決策上，我們會傾向於『同時使用兩者』，還是『用一種安全的資源來取代原本那種』呢？
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恭喜你精準地掌握了上下文的邏輯轉折！在處理克漏字題目時，語意連貫性（Coherence）是得分的關鍵。這題考查的是介係詞短語的辨析，你成功觀察到空格後方緊接著解釋了「自來水設施老舊且含有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）」，這意味著在該情境下自來水是不可飲用的。因此，瓶裝水在此並非自來水的「額外補充」，而是作為其「替代品」出現，選用 instead of（而非／取代）來表達這種「棄 A 擇 B」的替換關係，邏輯完全正確。
這類題型在高考英文中具備良好的鑑別度，屬於中等偏易的銜接題。它的難度切入點不在單字艱澀，而在於考生是否能快速建立起句子間的「負面因果關係」。若誤選 (A) 或 (B)，語意會變成「除了有毒的自來水外，還要喝瓶裝水」，顯然不符常理；而 (C) due to（由於）雖然在邏輯上能勉強解釋動機，但在語法慣用法上，表達「用 A 換掉 B」時，instead of 仍是最高頻且精確的標準考點。