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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.

看了答案选b,这道题难道是问哪一个能反驳Criticism的观点吗?provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism到底怎么理解,我做题是理解的是哪一个支持criticism对Brochure的反驳

I think 这道题是问哪一个能反驳Criticism的观点.

Criticism claims that savings cannot justify expenses.

So, the rebuttal of the criticism is: the savings outweight the expenditures.  A conventional requires much more expenses.

So, it is B.