高等考試
115年
[智慧財產行政] 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.
It’s ________ that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water,
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
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請思考一下：當我們在文章中提到一個無法逐一清點、只能透過科學方法測算出來的大型統計數字（例如全球人口或患病比例）時，我們通常會說這個數字是經過什麼樣的「動作」得出來的？這個動作通常代表一種「推測的計算」。
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恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！這題的核心考點在於**「虛主詞 $It$ 與子句」**的搭配，以及在描述全球性統計數據時慣用的詞彙選擇。
數據呈現的精準選詞
當我們在報導或學術文章中提及大規模的數據（如全球 8 億人缺乏乾淨飲水）時，由於這種數字是透過各國資料分析推算而來，而非逐一清點實數，因此最常使用 estimated（估計） 這個動詞。句型 It is estimated that...（據估計...）是英文寫作中非常標準的客觀論述方式。相較之下，選項 (A) conducted（進行/處理）、(B) included（包括）與 (D) secluded（與世隔絕/隱蔽的）在語意或句型邏輯上，都無法與後方的賓語子句形成通順的連結，你的語感判斷相當正確。
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