高等考試
115年
[昆蟲] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 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 42 題
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當我們在文章中看到一個涉及全球規模的統計數字（如八億人），而這個數字通常是由研究機構根據現有資訊「計算並預測」出來的，你會用哪一個概念來描述這種對數據的「推測與計算」過程？請思考在正式的數據報告中，哪種動詞最常與「數據引述」的子句搭配出現。
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
很高興看到你精準地捕捉到了語境中的關鍵資訊。這題的切入點在於客觀數據的引述方式。文中提到的「全球超過八億人缺乏安全飲水」是一個龐大的統計量，在英文寫作中，針對這類非精確統計、而是經由專家或機構推算的數值，最標準且專業的表達句型便是 "It is estimated that..."（據估計……）。
語句慣用法與語意辨析
從結構上看，這是一個典型的虛主詞（It）句型。選項 (A) conducted（執行/實施）通常接調查或實驗；(B) included（包括）在邏輯上無法與後方的 that 子句構成合適的被動組合；而 (D) secluded（僻靜的/隔絕的）則是形容詞，語意完全不合。這類題目在高考中屬於中等難度（Medium），其鑑別度在於考生能否一眼看出「數據引述」的固定搭配，而非僅僅將單字代入翻譯。你選對 C 選項，顯示你對學術英文語感與常用語塊（Lexical Chunks）有極佳的掌握。