GWD-3-17问题看不懂啊！

Q17:

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.

请问题目的问法"Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?"应该怎样理解？

以下选项如果正确，能够作为反驳criticism观点的最好的论据？（削弱题型）

以下选项如果正确，能够作为criticism反驳Brochure的最好论据？（加强题型）

实在胡涂，题目不明白肯定不会做的，哪位给指点一下？答案为什么是B？

我一开始选错了，因为不知道rebuttal得意思 。

题目问的是反驳criticism的basis，那么来看criticism说什么，它说“转换landscape省不了多少钱，特别是因为这个转换省下用户每年水费还不到20刀”。

而B选项说“普通的landscape比新的节水型的landscape更多需要化肥农药之类的花费”，言外之意，新的节水型landscape的虽然水费省的不多，但是化肥和其他方面会省下很多钱，从而削弱了criticism“升不了多少钱”的观点。

ADE选项无关，C选项与原文不符。

Criticism:  For most people with yards, /￥#……—*（*—……*··￥

c: A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.

这个。

怎么我看题目是这种.....

   题目要寻找一个反驳Criticism选项

   我认为是B, B在说water-conserving landscape 好的理由

我有不同意见，就是因为critism开口就说“For most people with yards ，就好像限定了讨论的范围（逻辑链条的范围），所以任何这个范围以外的都应该对该论证不够成作用（原文讨论对于大多数有园子的人，选项却说没园子的人怎样。。。。），好像是out of scope似的。

你看是不？

对呀，阿文，我就是糊涂这点，但是当作加强题就找不到答案，如果像上面那位兄弟理解的削弱的话，我觉得肯定就是B了。

关键”provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism“，这个of好像是标明所属关系的嘛，如果是反对，我觉得应该用个agaist之类的介词比较好啊？

继续请教！

我跟你的想法一样, 总觉的这个of 是表possession,

至于(C)是无关选项, 无论题目是support/weaken

这好象应该放到SC去，如果考场碰到只能理解为反驳批评的意思了。

of：#in respect to     *slow of speech*

#9 a —  used as a function word to indicate the object of an action denoted or implied by the preceding noun *love of nature*  b —  used as a function word to indicate the application of a verb *cheats him of a dollar* or of an adjective *fond of candy*

#Centering on; directed toward:
以…为中心的；指向…的：

#[表示动作的对象]
the love of one's country
爱祖国、故乡
the telling of lies
说谎

狗狗总是热心助人，我是在SC区看到的，以前也有过对类似提问的困惑。

我认为，如果原文已经表明了rebuttal的内容，那么就是加强；如果原文没有表明rebuttal的内容，而仅仅是criticism的内容，那就是削弱。

举个例子：

1－针对政府的环保政策，环境学家criticize XX. 问："Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?" 答题方向是削弱环境学家的观点；

2－针对政府的环保政策，环境学家criticize XX. 但是政府rebut环境学家的criticism. 问：Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?" 答题方向是支持政府的观点；