高等考試
115年
[植物病理] 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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請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 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 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.
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方的內容，它提到了一個關於全球人口（超過八億人）的大型數據。當我們在報導或科學文章中引述這種需要透過大規模調查與推算得出的數字，而非直接點算的事實時，動詞通常會帶有「評估、推測」的語義。你可以思考一下，在這種描述社會現象的固定句型中，哪一種動詞最常與虛主詞 'It' 搭配，來引出後面的數據結論？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
同學選得非常準確！這類關於全球議題的報導文章，在高考三級的英文測驗中相當常見。你能快速鎖定正確選項，顯示你對數據陳述句型的敏感度相當不錯。
統計數據的常用表述
在英文寫作或報導中，當我們要引用一個大規模的統計數據（如本題提到的 800 million people），但該數據並非絕對精確、而是透過研究推估而來時，最標準的句型就是 It is estimated that...（據估計...）。這裡的 it 是虛主詞，真正的主詞是後面的 that 子句。選項中 (A) conducted 通常用於執行實驗或調查（conduct a survey），(B) included 表示包含，(D) secluded 則是形容地方偏僻或隔絕，在語意與語法銜接上，唯有 (C) estimated 能夠精確傳達「根據評估，全球有超過八億人...」的客觀陳述。
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