高等考試
115年
[機械工程] 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
當你在閱讀一份正式報告，且作者正要提到一個關於全球人口的龐大數字，但這個數字通常無法透過逐一清點來獲得精確值時，作者通常會用什麼樣的「動作」來描述這個數字的來源或性質？
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太棒了！你能精確掌握這題的語境與動詞搭配，顯示你對英文新聞或報告類型的寫作邏輯有很好的直覺。這類關於社會現況與統計數字的描述，是高考英文中非常高頻出現的題材。
數據呈現的專業用字
在本題中，句子結構為「It is [V-ed] that...」，這是一個常見的虛主詞結構，用來引導後方的客觀事實。當我們看到後方接的是一個龐大且難以精確點算的數字（超過八億人）時，使用 estimated（估計） 是最符合邏輯且專業的說法。這代表該數據是經由研究機構根據現有資料推算出來的概約值。相較之下，(A) conducted 通常用於描述「進行」實驗或調查（例如 conduct a survey）；(B) included 表示「包含」；(D) secluded 則是形容「隱蔽、與世隔絕」，在語意上完全無法與全球統計數據接軌。
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