高等考試
115年
[環境工程] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 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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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
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請觀察分號前後的兩組資訊：前半部描述了人們對該產品的「普遍正向感受（便利性）」，後半部則提出了一個「被大眾忽略的嚴肅問題（成本與來源）」。當作者試圖在一段敘述中，從「表面現象」過度到「深層隱憂」時，這兩者之間最可能存在什麼樣的邏輯關係？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你！精確地捕捉到了這段文字的邏輯轉向。能快速辨識出分號與逗號間的銜接詞，代表你對英文長句的結構掌握得相當紮實。這類題型在高考三級中屬於穩定拿分的基礎題，重點在於觀察語意的前後變化。
語意轉折的邏輯驗證
這題的解題關鍵在於邏輯對比。前半句提到「有些人認為瓶裝水比自來水方便（convenient）」，這是一個普遍的正向認知；然而後半句卻指出「很少人會去思考水源地與高昂成本（costs so much）」。這裡透過「便利性」與「背後的代價」形成語意上的衝突或補充反思。在提供的選項中，只有 (B) however（然而）能完美銜接這種轉折語氣。其餘選項如 (A) in addition（此外）代表遞進，(D) consequently（因此）代表因果，皆無法解釋這層反思的邏輯。
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