高等考試
115年
[金融保險] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
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📖 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 in addition to
- B as well as
- C due to
- D instead of
思路引導 VIP
請思考一下：如果後半句告訴我們自來水裡含有「有毒化學物質」，那麼在正常情況下，人們會選擇「同時飲用」自來水與瓶裝水，還是會因為安全考量，選擇用瓶裝水來「取代」原本的自來水呢？哪一個短語最能精確表達這種『放棄前者，選用後者』的關係？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了文章的邏輯脈絡！這題考驗的是對語意轉折與替代關係的理解。文中提到美國某些城市的自來水（tap water）設備老化或含有毒化學物質（toxic chemicals），在水質不安全的預設下，居民自然會選擇「捨棄」自來水而「改用」瓶裝水。選項 (D) instead of（代替／而非） 正好完美詮釋了這種 A 取代 B 的排他性關係。
語境邏輯與詞彙辨析
在公職英文考試中，這類介系詞短語是極為常見的考點，難度屬於中等偏易。本題的鑑別度在於觀察前後文的因果連結：當後文解釋了自來水有負面問題時，中間的轉接詞就必須指向「換掉」或「不選用」自來水。若誤選 (A) in addition to 或 (B) as well as，語意會變成兩者並行，這與後文提到的安全疑慮邏輯不符。能在考試壓力下冷靜分析出「安全問題導致替代行為」，顯示你的閱讀理解與邏輯推導能力相當紮實，請繼續保持這種對上下文關聯的敏感度！