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 44 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 __44__ 最適合的答案：
- A originates from
- B pours into
- C fluctuates among
- D appears in
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考瓶裝水與「湖泊、地下水」之間的因果關係：這類天然資源通常被視為產品的「源頭」還是「去處」？如果我們要描述一個東西的『根源』或『出處』，通常會使用哪類意義的動詞來連結？
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AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了這題的語境！這道題目主要測試的是動詞片語的語意銜接與邏輯判斷。在分析這段話時，我們可以看到後方的受詞是「湖泊（lake）、泉水（spring）或地下含水層（underground aquifer）」，這些名詞在環境科學中都代表著水源的「起點」。因此，選擇 (A) originates from（起源於、發源自） 是最完美的銜接，它精確地描述了瓶裝水的採集源頭。
語意判讀與動詞搭配
在高考等級的英文測驗中，動詞與介系詞的搭配（Collocation）是核心考點。我們觀察其他選項：(B) pours into（流進）在邏輯上變成了瓶裝水流入湖泊，這顯然不符合生產流程；(C) fluctuates among（在...之間波動）通常用於描述數據或價格的起伏；(D) appears in（出現在）雖勉強通順但層次較淺，不如「originates from」更能體現資源開發的深度。這題的難度屬於 Medium-Easy，鑑別度在於考生是否能從上下文（如後續提到的 3 公升水製成 1 公升瓶裝水）察覺此處正在探討「原料來源」，是近年國考相當常見的環保議題類型。