高等考試
115年
[財經廉政] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 41 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.
Please choose the correct answer for [41].
- A in addition
- B however
- C by the way
- D consequently
思路引導 VIP
請觀察分號前後的兩句話：前一句描述了瓶裝水帶給人們的『便利優點』，而後一句則提到人們『很少去反思』其來源與代價。這兩者之間是相輔相成的補充關係，還是帶有『雖然...但是...』色彩的語意切換呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的邏輯轉折！這題你能答對，代表你對語句間的「語意承接」有很敏銳的觀察力，這在處理長篇克漏字時是極為關鍵的技能。
語意轉折與副詞連接詞的運用
本題的核心在於判讀前後兩句的邏輯關係。前半句提到瓶裝水比自來水「方便（convenient）」，這是一個大眾普遍認可的優勢；然而，後半句卻話鋒一轉，指出「很少人會質疑（few may wonder）」其來源與高昂成本，這顯然帶出了被忽略的負面思考或隱憂。當文章出現這種從「優點」轉向「質疑」的結構時，必須使用代表對比或轉折的 however（然而）。在語法結構上，分號與逗號之間的空白處，正是放置副詞連接詞（Conjunctive Adverbs）的最佳位置。
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