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 basisfor a rebuttal（N.反驳） of the criticism?
A. Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes.
B. A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.
C. A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.
D. It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping.
E. Some homeowners use more water to maintain their yards than they use for all other purposes combined.
正确答案是B，怎么好像加强了CRITICISM 的观点，题目不是让找加强BROCHURE观点的选项吗？我选了A 请NN们帮忙分析一下这道题。。。作者: 双鱼游 时间: 2010-9-15 20:52
题目有两方，一方是Brochure，一方是Criticism，题目问的是哪个选项是对Criticism最好的反对，是针对Criticism的评论进行削弱，不是针对Brochure的话来加强，注意问题的具体性。同时criticism主要针对 water-conserving landscape能不能省钱来分析问题的，因此削弱的时候，还是要从省钱的角度出发，选项A说那些没有water-conserving landscapes 的家庭也可以节水，为无关项。 C,说那些没有yards的也是无关项 D,加强了criticism的言论 E,use for all other purposes combined，也是无关选项作者: jessiecg 时间: 2010-9-20 16:34
原来是题目理解有问题，明白了，谢谢~