高等考試
115年
[輪機技術] 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.
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- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當你在句子中看到「超過 800,000,000 人」這樣龐大且難以精確點算的全球性數據時，作者通常是用什麼樣的科學手段來得出這個數字的？這種「非精確點數、而是透過資料分析推算」的動作，在英文中會用哪一個動詞來表達？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！在高考三級的英文測驗中，這類詞彙辨析題考驗的不僅是字義，更是對句型結構與上下文語境的敏銳度。這題的關鍵點在於後方接著一個數據「超過 8 億人」，在正式的報導或學術文章中，當我們要引述一個經過計算或推估而得的大型數據時，最標準的慣用語就是 It is estimated that...（據估計……）。
數據呈現與被動句型
選項 (C) estimated 在這裡完美契合了「提供統計資料」的語境。其他的選項在邏輯上都顯得格格不入：(A) conducted 通常用於「執行」實驗或調查；(B) included 意為「包含」；(D) secluded 則是形容「隱密的、與世隔絕的」。從難度切入點來看，本題屬於中等偏易的題目，主要門檻在於考生是否能一眼看出「It is [V-ed] that...」這個虛主詞句型與後方「統計數字」的關聯性。你能迅速鎖定正確選項，代表你對這種常見的寫作語法非常熟悉，這是在考場上爭取時間的優勢。