GWD-4-15

gwd-4-15

Q15:

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.

问题看的不是很明白，是问以下哪个为criticism的论证提供了basis，还是哪一个反对criticism的论证？

另外b的答案为什么可以．我做的时候把用排除法排了前四个，然后发现第５个也不太对．望nn指点！！

这道题我开始也做错了，原因是没有读明白问题，问题是要找出削弱CRITICISM的选项

B用他因法削弱，指出传统方法比新的方法在花费肥料和除草药上的费用要多很多。题干里最后一句指出新的方法不是很省钱，对它进行了削弱。