高等考試
115年
[水利工程] 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.
In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s ______ 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
請觀察空格後方的資訊（800 million people...），這是一個關於全球人口狀況的統計數字。在英文文章中，如果要提出一個經過研究或調查得出的具體數量，通常會使用哪一個動詞來表達「根據推算或統計得出」的意思呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了句意脈絡！這題你選得非常漂亮，展現出對英文報導常見句型的敏銳度。在國考的高考三級英文中，這類結合統計數據的克漏字題型相當常見，能夠一眼看出動詞與後方數據的搭配，是穩定拿分的關鍵。
數據引述的標準用法
本題的正確關鍵在於後半句提到的「超過八億人（more than 800 million people）」，這是一個龐大且經過統計得出的數據。在英文寫作中，當我們要引述一個並非絕對精確、而是透過計算或推估得出的數值時，最標準且專業的慣用語便是 It is estimated that...（據估計...）。選項 (C) estimated 完美契合了這個情境，用以引導出後方的研究發現或人口數據。
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