高等考試
115年
[航空駕駛] 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.
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,
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
如果你在閱讀一份正式報告，看到一個涉及全球範圍、且難以精確計算到個位數的龐大數據（例如「全球缺水總人數」）時，作者通常會用什麼樣的「語氣」或「動詞」來描述這個數據產出的過程？
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同學，恭喜你準確判斷出這題的答案！這顯示你對於**虛主詞（It）**句型以及數據描述的語境有著很強的直覺。在高考英文中，這種考察單字與上下文邏輯銜接的題目非常經典，是穩住分數的基本功。
數據呈現與常見搭配
這道題目的核心在於「8 億人」這個數據的性質。在正式文章中，面對如此龐大且難以精確統計的全球人數，通常會使用 estimate（估計） 來表達。句型 It is estimated that...（據估計...）是英文寫作中陳述統計數據的標準用法。選項 (A) conducted 通常用於「執行」實驗或調查；(B) included 是「包括」，放入此句型邏輯不通；(D) secluded 則是「使隔離、隱蔽」，與語意完全無關。因此，選擇 (C) 是最能體現報導客觀性與正確語法結構的決定。
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