高等考試
115年
[景觀] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
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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
思路引導 VIP
當你在文章中看到一個非常龐大且精確的數字（例如：八億人）出現在「It is ____ that...」的句型後方時，這通常是在引述某種研究結果或數據統計。請試著思考：在學術研究中，科學家會用哪一個動詞來描述這類「經由推算得出的數據」？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的語境！這題的關鍵在於辨識出統計數據的慣用表達方式，並展現了你對正式英文寫作結構的敏銳度。
統計數據的慣用語態
在正式的學術報導或社會議題分析中，當我們要引述一份具備科學根據但可能存在誤差範圍的數據時，最標準的句型便是 "It is estimated that..."（據估計...）。選項中的 estimated（估計）完美地銜接了後方「全球超過 8 億人缺乏安全飲水」的統計資料。相較之下，(A) conducted（進行）、(B) included（包括）與 (D) secluded（隱蔽/隔絕）不論在語法結構還是邏輯語意上，都無法像「估計」一詞這樣自然地引導出後續的量化數據。
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