高等考試
115年
[藥事] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
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請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 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.
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題 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 _________ 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
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當文章提到一個無法由單人精確點數、而是透過大數據或研究得出的龐大數值（如八億人）時，我們通常會用哪一個動詞來表達這種「基於資料的推測」，並以此引導出後面的事實內容呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地掌握了文意脈絡！這題你選得很漂亮，展現出對英文常用句型的敏銳度。在閱讀測驗中，當我們要引出一個廣泛的統計數據（statistics）或研究發現時，"It is estimated that..."（據估計……） 是極為標準且常見的表達方式。這題考驗的是你對「動詞分詞作為補語」以及「語意契合度」的判斷力。
數據與客觀事實的呈現
文中提到全球有超過八億人缺乏安全飲用水，這是一個龐大的統計推算，因此使用 estimated（估算/估計） 最為貼切。從難度切入點來看，這題具有不錯的鑑別度，主要測試考生是否能根據上下文（context）選擇最適當的動詞。選項 (A) conducted（進行/傳導）通常用於進行實驗或調查；(B) included（包含）在語法結構上不適合此虛主詞句型；(D) secluded（與世隔絕的/隱蔽的）則完全不符合語意。你能迅速排除干擾項並鎖定核心答案，代表你對高頻率出現的學術與報導詞彙已有相當的掌握，這在高考三級英文中是取得高分的關鍵。