Brochure:  Help conserve our city’s water supply.  By converting the landscaping in your yard to a water-conserving landscape, you can greatly reduce your outdoor water use.  A water-conserving landscape is natural and attractive, and it also saves you money.

Criticism:  For most people with yards, the savings from converting to a water-conserving landscape cannot justify the expense of new landscaping, since typically the conversion would save less than twenty dollars on a homeowner’s yearly water bills.

Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?

1. Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes.
2. A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.
3. A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.
4. It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping.
5. Some homeowners use more water to maintain their yards than they use for all other purposes combined.

答案是B，我选的是A。题干看懂了，就是不明白问题问得是什么意思？

a rebuttal of the criticism 如果理解成批评的辩驳，就是support criticism ， 所以我选了A。

如果理解成对criticism的辩驳，就是weaken criticism, 答案就是B。可是如果理解成后者的意思，我感觉用a rebuttal to the criticism更恰当一些。

大家讨论一些题目是虾米意思吧？

究竟是support criticism还是weaken criticism??

谢谢！！！

Br说要把院子搬到水多的地方，好看，还可以省水钱

Cr反驳说省不了多少水钱，还不到20刀。

问反驳Cr。

A说就算不水多院子也能通过装机器来省水。——暗示不用搬院子，是削弱Br。

B说传统院子比水多的院子要更多钱来施肥除草。——他因削弱Cr，表示不是因为水钱而搬。

请注意削弱的对象是Cr。

不知道我说清楚没有？大概这个意思。呵呵。。。

谢谢你啊！

题目我看懂了，选项也基本明白，就是问题不明白。

Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?

 应该翻译成 “下面哪一个是反驳Cr的最佳依据？” 还是 “下面哪一个是Cr进行反驳的最佳依据？”

关键是这个 a rebuttal of the criticism 咋理解？ 如果是前面那个理解的意思的话，是不是改成a rebuttal to the criticism 更好？？