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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📖 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 in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
想像你有兩條路可以回家，但原本最常走的那條路因為施工完全封閉了，導致你必須改走另一條遠路。在這種「因為原方案失效，進而改採備案」的決策過程中，這兩個方案之間的關係是『共存』還是『取代』？你會如何用一個連接詞來呈現這種「捨棄受損方案、選用安全方案」的邏輯轉折？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文章的邏輯轉折！這道題目的核心在於理解語境中的替代關係（Substitution）。文段中明確提到，由於自來水設施老舊且含有有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals），使得原本的供水系統不再安全，因此城市不得不改用瓶裝水。在這種「捨棄 A 而採取 B」的情境下，選項 (D) instead of（而非/代替）是語意上最完美的銜接，展現了行為的排他性與替代性。
語法與邏輯的深度解析
從高考英語的命題思維來看，這類題型的鑑別度在於區分遞進、因果與替代的微小差異。選項 (A) in addition to 與 (B) as well as 都帶有「兩者兼具」的意涵，這與後文提到的自來水有毒、無法飲用的現實相矛盾。而 (C) due to 雖表因果，但在語法慣例上，若要表達「因為自來水的問題」，後面通常需接具體的原因（如 due to tap water pollution），直接接 tap water 會顯得語義含混。因此，選擇 (D) 不僅符合文意，更能展現出你對長句邏輯鏈條的敏銳度，這正是高考邁向高分的關鍵。