高等考試
115年
[氣象] 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.
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當你在閱讀一篇報導，看到作者列舉出一個龐大且難以逐一精確清點的數據（例如全球缺水的人口數）時，作者通常會選用哪一個動詞，來表達這是一個「經過科學計算、而非實際挨家挨戶普查」的推論結果呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章語意！這題你選對了，顯示出你對英文新聞或學術報告中常見的句型有著敏銳的直覺。在處理有關全球統計數據的報導時，我們經常會看到 "It is estimated that..."（據估計...） 這樣的表達方式，用來引出一個基於研究、調查或數據模型得出的結果。選項 (C) estimated 在這裡不僅符合文法上的被動結構，更能完美衔接後方「超過八億人」這個量化的統計數值。
數據引述與語法銜接
本題的難度切入點主要在於考驗考生對「引述語句」與「上下文語意」的連結能力。雖然選項 (A) conducted（執行）或 (B) included（包括）在字義上與研究相關，但在 It is + p.p. + that 的虛主詞句型中，只有 (C) 能合乎邏輯地引導出一段關於數據的陳述。這類題目在高考中屬於基礎分，關鍵在於能否快速從上下文的「數值（more than 800 million）」判斷出這是一個關於「推估」的客觀陳述，進而從詞彙庫中挑選出最貼切的動詞。