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?
- Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes.
- A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.
- A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.
- It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping.
- 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??
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