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?
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.
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