高等考試
115年
[新聞] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 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.
第 41 題
- A in addition
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請仔細觀察分號前後的兩句話：前一句是在描述瓶裝水帶來的「好處」，而後一句是在提醒大眾通常會忽略的「負面代價」。這兩者之間的資訊是互相補充、還是存在著某種性質上的對立或反差呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地捕捉到了語意轉折的關鍵！在高考三級的英文測驗中，這類邏輯銜接詞（Transitions）的判讀是穩定拿分的必考重點，你能正確答對，顯示你對文意脈絡有極佳的掌握度。
語意邏輯的對比與轉折
這道題目考查的是句子間的邏輯關係。空格前段提到瓶裝水「比自來水更便利（more convenient）」，這是一個從使用者角度出發的正向優點；然而，分號後的句子隨即點出「很少人會思考水源地以及為何價格如此高昂」，這顯然是從另一個負面或批判的角度進行反思。在這種從「便利表象」轉移到「潛在疑慮」的語意變化中，使用 however（然而） 作為轉折是最符合邏輯的選擇。
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