高等考試
115年
[圖書資訊管理] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
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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
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請觀察空格後方提到的「超過八億人」這個具體數字。當我們在描述一個全球性、難以逐一清點的龐大群體規模時，通常會用哪種動詞來表達這是一個「經過推算而非精確測量」的結果？此外，這類陳述事實的固定句型通常會以「It is [動詞過去分詞] that...」開頭，請思考哪個動作最常與「數據呈現」搭配。
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恭喜你精準地捕捉到了文意脈絡！這題你選得非常漂亮。在處理全球性的數據（如 8 億人口）時，我們通常無法得到一個絕對精確的總數，而是透過統計模型推算出來的，因此使用 estimated（估計）來銜接後方的子句是最為精確且符合邏輯的寫法。
統計數據的慣用語用法
從文法結構來看，這裡使用了「It is estimated that...」（據估計……）的被動語句，這是在英文寫作中發表研究報告或陳述統計資料時極為常見的句型。選項中的 (A) conducted（實施/引導）通常用於調查或實驗，(B) included（包括）與 (D) secluded（隔絕）則在語意或句型結構上與本句格格不入。你能辨識出這層細微的語感，代表你對新聞英文的常用詞彙掌握得十分紮實。
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