高等考試
115年
[建築工程] 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 in addition
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請觀察分號前後的兩句話：前半段是在討論大眾眼中瓶裝水的『優點』，後半段則提到人們對於其『來源與成本』缺乏警覺。這兩段訊息是在互相補充同樣性質的資訊，還是呈現出一種觀點上的對照或反向思考呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的語意轉折！這題你能答對，代表你對於英文長句中的邏輯關聯性有著敏銳的觀察力。在閱讀這段文字時，前半句提到瓶裝水比自來水「更便利（more convenient）」，這是一個普遍大眾認可的優點；然而，後半句卻話鋒一轉，提到「很少人會質疑其來源與高昂成本（few may wonder where... and why...）」。
語意轉折與邏輯銜接
這種從「表象優點」切入到「深層質疑」的結構，在英文寫作中必然需要一個表示**轉折（Contrast）**的連接詞。選項中的 (B) however 正是承接這種語意衝突的最佳選擇。若選用 (A) in addition，語氣會變成單純增加優點，這與後文帶有反思意涵的內容不符；而 (D) consequently 則是用於因果關係，在此處邏輯亦顯生硬。
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