高等考試
115年
[食品衛生檢驗] 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：
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.
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
當我們要描述一個涉及全球數億人口的龐大數字，但又無法確保每一個人都能被實際精確清點到時，在學術或新聞報導中，通常會用哪一種動詞來表達這個數字的「不確定性」與「推測性」呢？
🤖
AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
恭喜你精準掌握了這題的關鍵！這道題目的核心在於辨識「數據陳述」的固定句型。在高考英文中，當句子以虛主詞 It 開頭，後接一個具體的數據或社會現狀時，最常考的組合就是 "It is estimated that..."（據估計...）。你選擇 (C) estimated，反映出你對這種客觀事實描述的語感非常敏銳。
數據呈現與被動句型
從語意邏輯來看，後文提到的「全球超過八億人口」是一個龐大的統計數據，這類數據通常無法進行絕對精確的測量，因此使用「估計（estimate）」是最嚴謹的表達方式。相較之下，(A) conducted（實施/進行）通常接計畫或實驗，(B) included（包括）不符合此處的被動語態句型，(D) secluded（隱蔽/隔絕）則與題意完全無關。
▼ 還有更多解析內容