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?
为什么答案是B呢? 我选的D 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?
Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes.
A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.
A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.
It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping.
Some homeowners use more water to maintain their yards than they use for all other purposes combined.
Criticism:For most people with yards, thesavings from converting to a water-conserving landscape cannot justify theexpense of new landscaping, since typically the conversion would save less thantwenty dollars on a homeowner’s yearly water bills. (disagree to convert to water-conserving landscap, concern focus on economically )
Which ofthe following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of thecriticism? (要反对Criticism,也就是说要找那个方面water-conserving 比conventional省钱)
Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes.
A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.(conventional landscape在fertilizer&herbicide方面比较贵,water-conserving 便宜)
A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards.
It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping.(water-conserving和conventional需要的钱一样,不能说明water-conserving就好)
Some homeowners use more water to maintain their yards than they use for all other purposes combined.