高等考試
115年
[海洋行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
📖 題組：
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.
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- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當句子開頭使用「It is ... that」結構，且後方緊接著一項關於全球人口的大型統計數字時，請思考：科學家或研究機構在無法逐一清點全人類狀況時，通常會對這類數字進行什麼樣的「推算」或「評估」動作？
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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境！這題考查的是常見的虛主詞（Dummy Subject）句型。在學術報導或新聞英文中，當我們要引述一項統計數據或研究發現，卻不特定指出是誰得出的結論時，最常使用 "It is estimated that..."（據估計...） 這個固定用法。這不僅符合文法上的被動語態，在語意上也完美銜接了後面提到「全球有八億人缺乏安全飲用水」這項宏觀的數據推估。
語境判讀與慣用語應用
從難度切入點來看，這題屬於「中等」偏易的基礎題型，主要鑑別考生對於正式寫作慣用語的熟悉度。選項 (A) conducted 常搭配研究或實驗（conduct a study）；(B) included 表示包含，通常接名詞而非 that 子句作為虛主詞補語；(D) secluded 則是「隱蔽的、與世隔絕的」，與數據描述完全無關。能在短時間內排除干擾項並選出 (C)，說明你對英文資訊型文章的掌握非常穩健，請繼續保持這種對語塊（Word chunks）的敏感度！