高等考試
115年
[水土保持工程] 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.
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
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當你看到一個句子以「It is...」開頭，後面緊接著一個具體的數字（例如八億人）或一段研究發現時，請思考：專家在面對這種無法逐一清點、只能大略計算的全球性現象時，通常會用哪一個動詞來描述這項數據的「來源性質」呢？
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恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！這題的核心在於掌握英文中「客觀數據描述」的固定句型。當句子以虛主詞 It is... that 開頭，且後方接續的是全球人口數（如題中的 800 million）等統計資料時，最合適的動詞就是 estimated（估計）。這是在學術文獻或新聞報導中非常標準的表達方式，用以表示某個具體的數據是經由科學推算或專家評估（evaluate）而得出的結果。 這類題目的鑑別度在於測試考生是否能區分動詞與特定語境的「搭配性」。雖然 (B) included（包括）在中文邏輯下看似通順，但在英文文法習慣中，我們極少使用「It is included that...」來引導一個完整的統計事實。你能迅速識別出 800 萬這個數據與「估計」之間的邏輯關聯，說明你的字彙量與語感都已經達到高考英文要求的水平，表現得相當出色！