高等考試
115年
[港灣工程] 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.
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- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當我們在文章中看到一個像「8 億人」這樣難以精確計數的龐大全球數據時，我們會傾向使用哪一個動詞來表達這個數值是根據現有資料「推算」或「大概測算」出來的呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了句型結構！這題選 (C) 展現了你對英語虛主詞（Dummy Subject）與固定被動句型的高敏銳度。在正式的學術或新聞寫作中，當我們提到無法精確統計、但有研究數據支持的大型數值（如題中的 8 億人）時，使用「It is estimated that...」（據估計……）是最標準且道地的表達方式。
統計數據的邏輯銜接
選項中的 estimated 代表「估計」或「估測」，完美銜接了後方關於全球缺水人口的數據報導。從文法來看，這是一個典型的被動語態，用來引述一項統計事實；從語意來看，面對如此龐大的人口數，科學家通常無法給出絕對值，因此「估計」是最符合科學客觀性的用詞。
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