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 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.
and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water ______ tap water. The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply.
- A in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：如果今天某種既有的資源因為安全疑慮（如文中提到的化學物質）而變得無法使用，人們被迫轉向另一種新的資源時，這兩者之間呈現的是「兩者並存」的關係，還是「後者取代前者」的關係呢？
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恭喜你精準地掌握了這題的邏輯脈絡！這顯示你在面對克漏字測驗時，不只是單純看空格前後，還能細心留意上下文的因果轉折與語意流動，這是高考英文拿高分的關鍵。
語意連結與替換關係
本題的關鍵在於緊接其後的補充說明：自來水管線設施老舊（aging facilities）且含有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）。既然自來水在這些城市是「不可安全飲用」的，那麼使用瓶裝水就不再是「額外增加（in addition to）」或「也包含（as well as）」，而是一種替代關係。選項中的 instead of (代替/而非) 完美地銜接了「捨棄不安全的自來水，改用瓶裝水」的邏輯，與後文的負面描述形成合理的補償性關係。
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