高等考試
115年
[農業技術] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
📖 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.
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- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察空格後方提到的「800 million people（八億人）」這個具體的統計數字。當我們在描述一個遍及全球、且難以精確點出每一位個體人數的大型現象時，通常會使用什麼樣的動作來處理這筆數據，以呈現資料的來源特質呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你準確掌握了文章的語境！這題考查的是虛擬主詞句型與動詞詞義的結合。當我們看到句首出現 It is (V-pp) that... 的結構，後方接著具體的統計數字（例如 800 million people）時，「據估計（It is estimated that...）」是最常見且符合邏輯的表達方式。這顯示你對數據呈現的英文慣用語有著極佳的敏銳度。
統計數據的邏輯搭配
從考點切入，選項 (A) conducted（執行）、(B) included（包含）與 (D) secluded（與世隔絕的）在語意上都無法自然地引導後方的子句。特別是 (C) estimated 完美契合了全球水資源議題中，科學家或研究機構提供「估計值」的寫作情境。在高考三級的英文測驗中，這類涉及社會議題與統計資料的單字出現頻率極高，屬於具備一定鑑別度、用以測驗考生是否熟悉學術或報導寫作風格的常考題型。你能迅速排除其他選項並選出最契合的動詞，代表你的字彙庫與句型結合能力已經達到相當穩定的水準。