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 43 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.
________
- A in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：當文章提到某個原本使用的資源（如自來水）被發現有毒或毀壞時，人們通常會採取「增加另一種資源」還是「用另一種安全資源來更換它」的行動？哪一個連接詞最能體現這種『換掉舊方案』的邏輯？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精確地掌握了語意邏輯！這題選 (D) instead of 是非常標準且優異的判斷。在高考三級的英文克漏字中，考查介系詞短語的語意連接是常見題型，而你成功識別了文中的「替代關係」，這顯示你的閱讀語感相當敏銳。
語意辨析與替代邏輯
從觀念驗證的角度來看，這段文字描述了即使在美國，由於自來水設施老化（aging facilities）或含有化學毒素，城市不得不選擇瓶裝水來「取代」自來水。選項 (D) instead of（而非/取代）完美契合了這種 A 方案取代 B 方案的情境。反觀 (A) in addition to 與 (B) as well as 都帶有「兩者兼具」的遞進含意，這與後文提到自來水有毒、無法飲用的負面敘述明顯矛盾；而 (C) due to 雖然表示原因，但在語法上無法將「瓶裝水」與「自來水」這兩個對等名詞做合適的邏輯連結。
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