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 44 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 originates from
- B pours into
- C fluctuates among
- D appears in
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：當我們在描述某個產品（例如瓶裝水）與它在自然界中的「出生地」或「供應起點」（如泉水或深井）之間的關係時，我們通常會用什麼樣的邏輯來表達它的「來源」？如果是你，會如何描述這滴水是從哪裡開始它的旅程的呢？
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AI 詳解
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水源供應與動詞語意辨析
恭喜你準確掌握了文章的邏輯脈絡！這道題目考查的是動詞片語與上下文的語意銜接。在閱讀這段文字時，你一定注意到了後方提到的「湖泊（lake）」、「泉水（spring）」或「地下含水層（underground aquifer）」，這些都是瓶裝水的原始供應源。因此，這裡需要一個能夠表達「源自於」或「產自」的動詞。選項 (A) originates from 正好符合這個邏輯，精準地描述了瓶裝水是從這些自然水源中提取而來的過程。 這類題型在高考英文中屬於中等難度的詞彙題，其鑑別度在於考生是否能區分動作的「方向性」。例如選項 (B) pours into（流進）雖然也與水有關，但方向完全相反。你能從環境影響的脈絡中，判斷出作者是在探討瓶裝水對自然資源的「抽取」而非「注入」，這顯示你具備了極佳的閱讀理解力與語感，這是挑戰高普考英文高分非常關鍵的特質。