高等考試
115年
[測量製圖] 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.
第 42 題
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方的資訊，那裡提到了一個非常具體的數字（800 million people）。在學術或新聞報導中，當我們要引出一個基於統計或研究得出的數字，但又不是百分之百的絕對值時，通常會用哪一個動詞來表達「推算」或「大概的計算」？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你正確選出了 estimated！這顯示你對於英文寫作中「引用數據」的常見句型相當熟悉。在高考三級的英文測驗中，這類關於全球議題（環境、衛生）的敘述非常常見，能夠快速辨識出 "It is estimated that..."（據估計……） 這個慣用語，是奪取基本分的關鍵。
數據呈現的標準用法
本題的解題核心在於後方的子句提到了一個具體的數據「超過八億人（more than 800 million people）」。在描述尚未有精確定論、但有科學或統計依據的數字時，動詞 estimate（估計） 是最精準的選擇。選項 (A) conducted（執行/指揮）、(B) included（包含）與 (D) secluded（隔絕/隱蔽）在語意上都無法與「引導數據的虛主詞句型」搭配，因此可以迅速排除。
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