高等考試
115年
[林業技術] 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.
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題：
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...
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...
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當你在文章中看到一個關於全球人口的大型統計數值（如八億人），而這個數字顯然無法透過逐一清點來獲得精確值，通常我們會使用哪一個動詞來描述這種「根據現有資料所做出的專業推算」呢？
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AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地選出正確答案！這題的核心在於辨識「引述數據」的固定句型。在探討全球性的社會議題時，若要引用一個無法百分之百精確、但具備科學根據的統計數字，最常使用的客觀表達方式就是 It is estimated that...（據估計...）。你對語感的掌握非常到位，能迅速從上下文的數值（800 million）判斷出這裡需要一個表示「推算」或「估算」的動詞。
統計數據的客觀表達
從詞彙運用的角度來看，這題具有相當不錯的鑑別度。選項 (A) conducted（執行/進行）常接調查或實驗，而非直接引導數據子句；(B) included（包含）語意不通；(D) secluded（隱蔽/與世隔絕）則完全偏離語境。在高考等級的英文測驗中，這類「虛主詞 It + 被動語態動詞 + That 子句」的組合是極高頻的考點，特別是用來呈現統計（estimated）、報導（reported）或普遍相信（believed）等社會事實時。你能從眾多動詞中挑選出最符合邏輯的科學推估詞彙，顯示你對正式英文寫作的慣用語已有深刻理解，這是奪取高分的關鍵實力。