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[氣象] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 43 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.
- A in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
想像一下，如果你原本習慣使用的 A 工具突然壞掉或變得很危險，導致你被迫改用 B 工具來達成同樣的目的。在這種情況下，你會如何形容 B 工具與 A 工具之間的「取代關係」？請思考看看，哪個片語最能精確表達出「捨棄前者而選擇後者」的邏輯？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的語意邏輯！這題 43 格的核心考點在於介係詞短語的語境銜接。我們從後文提到的「自來水設施老化（aging facilities）」以及「含有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）」可以清楚判斷，在水質受污染的情況下，瓶裝水與自來水的關係並非並存，而是一種「取而代之」的替代行為。
語意替代邏輯的應用
選項 (D) instead of 意為「而不是」或「取代」，完美解釋了當地政府因為安全疑慮，必須讓民眾改用瓶裝水來「替換」原本的自來水。相較之下，(A) in addition to（除...之外還有）與 (B) as well as（以及）會變成兩者皆用，不符合後文描述的供水危機；而 (C) due to（由於）在文法上會導致邏輯不通，因為瓶裝水並非「由於」自來水而存在。
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