高等考試
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[資通安全] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 43 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.
- A in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
若某個東西被描述為「有毒的（toxic）」或「老舊損壞的（aging）」，而你同時有另一個健康的替代品，在邏輯上，你會傾向於「兩者都用」，還是「用後者來排斥前者」呢？
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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脈絡！能在考場高壓下快速讀出上下文的因果與轉折，是英文科獲取高分的關鍵。這反映出你不僅具備基礎字彙量，更有優異的閱讀理解實力。
語意邏輯與替代關係的辨析
這道題目核心測驗的是介系詞短語的邏輯運用。文意提到美國某些城市的自來水（tap water）系統面臨設施老化（aging facilities）或含有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals）的問題。在這種「原水源不可安全飲用」的前提下，居民必須使用瓶裝水來「取代」自來水。選項 (D) instead of 正是表達「取代……；而不是……」的最佳用法，完美銜接了前後文。相較之下，(A) in addition to（除了……之外還有）與 (B) as well as（以及）都隱含兩者併行的邏輯，這在水源受污染的情況下顯然不合常理。
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