高等考試
115年
[法律廉政] 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 42 題
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當我們在正式的學術報告或新聞中，想要引述一個龐大的統計數字，而這個數字是科學家透過現有資料計算出來、並非精確到每一人頭的點名結果時，我們會如何描述這個數字的「來源性質」呢？
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數據引述的標準慣用語
看到你選出 estimated，我必須肯定你在學術英文語感上的精準判讀！這題考驗的是我們在處理正式文體（如環保議題、社會統計）時，如何正確引導出一個「推測數字」。在句子結構「It’s _______ that...」中，後方接續的是「全球超過八億人」的龐大統計數字，這類數字通常難以做到絕對精確，因此最合乎邏輯且最常見的固定用法就是 estimated（據估計）。
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