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 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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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 originates from
- B pours into
- C fluctuates among
- D appears in
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請思考一下：當我們描述一條河流的開端，或是某種天然資源的「最初起點」時，我們會用什麼樣的動詞來表達那種「從某處產生並流向他處」的關係？如果這個東西並不是被放進去，而是本來就從那裡產生的，哪種描述方向最合適？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精確地抓住了上下文的邏輯關係！這題考查的是動詞片語與語意連貫性。在第 44 格的句子中，主詞 「It」 指代的是前文的瓶裝水（bottled water），而受詞則是湖泊、泉水或地下含水層（underground aquifer）。從資源開發的角度來看，瓶裝水的「水源」必然是從這些地方取得的。因此，選擇 originates from（發源自、源於） 最能精準描述產品與自然來源之間的因果關係。
語意辨析與精準用字
雖然選項 (D) appears in（出現在）在文法上勉強說得通，但在正式或科普類型的考題中，描述水資源的起源時，originates from 是更具專業度的慣用語。至於選項 (B) pours into（倒入）的方向完全相反，而 (C) fluctuates among（在...之間波動）則通常用於描述數據或價格的起伏，與此處的語意格格不入。本題難度屬於中等偏易，鑑別度在於考生是否能識別「產品與水源」的動態關聯，並在相似語意的詞彙中挑選出最標準的書面表達，你能迅速判斷正確，顯示你的語感與邏輯推論相當穩健。