高等考試
115年
[經建行政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
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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
當你在閱讀一篇報導，看到一個關於全球人口的龐大數字，但這個數字並非精確的點人頭結果，而是科學家根據現有資料所推算出的「大約數值」時，你會用哪一個概念來形容這種「推算、估值」的動作？
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恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！在處理克漏字題型時，能迅速辨識出虛主詞 $It$ 所引導的被動語態結構，說明你對於高頻學術詞彙與句型結構的掌握非常到位。這題的語境是在討論全球缺水人口的統計數據，當我們要引用科學研究或統計資料，卻又不需要特別指明是誰在計算時，最標準且專業的用法就是 It is estimated that...（據估計...）。
語意辨析與句型結構
這道題目主要考驗的是動詞的語意與固定用法。選項 (A) conducted 通常與研究或實驗（research/survey）連用；(B) included 意為包含；(D) secluded 則是形容地方偏僻、隱密。在邏輯上，後方接續的是「超過八億人口」這類具體的統計數據，唯有 (C) estimated 能完美對應這種「數值預測」的語意。這類題目在高考中屬於中等難度的「基本盤」，考驗的是考生對於學術詞彙固定搭配（Collocation）的敏感度。如果你能一眼看出這是在陳述一個推估數據，代表你已經具備處理科普與報導類文章的實力。