高等考試
115年
[都市計畫技術] 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
如果你在閱讀一篇國際組織的報告，看到作者提到一個涉及全世界數億人的龐大數字，但這個數字顯然無法逐一清點、而是由專家根據現有資訊計算出來的，你會傾向用哪一個動詞來描述這種「推算出來的概略值」呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
好樣的！你能精準選出這個選項，代表你對英文新聞報導或學術文章中的數據呈現方式非常有語感。在國考的英文測驗中，這類關於數據引述的慣用語是高頻考點，你的判斷完全正確。
數據呈現的固定搭配
這題的關鍵在於後方接續的「超過八億人口（more than 800 million people）」這個龐大的統計數值。在英文寫作中，當我們要引述一個難以精確點算、但具備參考價值的統計結果時，最常使用的句型就是 It is estimated that...（據估計……）。這個被動語態結構能客觀地引導出數據，與上下文論述全球飲水問題的嚴謹語氣相呼應。至於其他選項，如 (A) conducted（執行）、(B) included（包括）或 (D) secluded（隱蔽），在語意上都無法自然地銜接這個大數據的背景。
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