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 42 題
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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.
Please choose the correct answer for [42].
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
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當你在文章中看到一個非常龐大的統計數字（例如八億人），且這個數字顯然是透過研究人員根據現有資料所推算出來的「大約數值」時，英文通常會用哪一個動詞來形容這種「根據資料計算出的初步結果」的行為呢？
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恭喜你精準地鎖定正確答案！這題考查的是英文中極為常見的虛主詞（It）引導的被動句型。在處理統計數據或社會事實時，我們常使用「It is estimated that...」來表達「據估計……」。這裡的 estimated（估計）完美契合了後文提到的「全球超過八億人」這類難以精確點數、需經由研究推算的宏觀數據，展現了你對文章語境的敏銳觀察力。
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