GWD-3-17问题看不懂啊！

lexie

water-conserving landscaping不比conventional landscaping花得多 言下之意就是说 前者跟后者花费差不多 后者更低

题目说的是要求驳斥critism

a-ga

請注意

ETS習慣如同SC.是不喜歡用所謂的雙重否定，若是要表示支持criticism的話可直接用

provides the best basis for the criticism,不需要加入rebuttal

因此題目是要反對criticism,也就是說 basis for a rebuttal of the criticism是反駁criticism.

无比

到底是选什么 ?

无比

CRITISCISM说的是CONVERT为water-conserving 的费用 与  所省的水费比较.

D说的是 conventional landscaping与 water-conserving landscaping 比较阿~

所以D应该是无关的对不对? 

但是为什么选B呢。。。。。。。。。

无比

B说的是，conventional landscaping在肥料和除草剂方面的费用要比water-conserving 的大得多。也就是说，尽管water-conserving 所省的水费不能弥补把conventional landscaping CONVERT 为water-conserving的费用，但是如果加上所省的大量肥料费，除草费，那么就可能可以弥补CONVERSION的费用，convertion 就是可行的了~

因而反驳了批评者的批评~~

是不是这样理解呢？

zhaoyak7

偶以为此类题有个简单的作法：文中有两个观点对立，B说存水装置好又省钱，C说存水装置没什么用省不了几个钱，那么：对C的驳斥（也就是对C——这个批评的驳斥）就是对B的支持，直接在选项中找相关的理由，有两个角度，一个是新的装置好和省钱，或者是旧的装置虽然费不了多少水但在其它方面费钱（选项B）

zimerman

同意选B

azureluis

请问题目的问法"Which of the following, if true, provides the best basis for a rebuttal of the criticism?"应该怎样理解？
以下选项如果正确，能够作为反驳criticism观点的最好的论据？（削弱题型）
以下选项如果正确，能够作为criticism反驳Brochure的最好论据？（加强题型）

我的理解

basis for a rebuttal of critism“a"为非限制性冠词 所以理解为选出一个作为反对crisitism的basis，即削弱型。
而如果是 basis for the rebuttal of critism “the"为限制性冠词，则理解为加强型

[此贴子已经被作者于2006-8-15 15:09:21编辑过]

ecochem

我觉得本题干扰项D非常类似与OG 10th的第89题（也是OG 11th的30题）选项E。原题如下所示：

In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However,
many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same
corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance payments.

89.Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the author's argument?
A. Many workers who have already lost their jobs to automation have been unable to find new jobs.
B. Many corporations that have failed to automate have seen their profits decline.
C. Taxes and unemployment insurance are paid also by corporations that are not automating.
D. Most of the new jobs created by automation pay less than the jobs eliminated by automation did.
E. The initial investment in machinery for automation is often greater than the short-term savings in labor costs.

Key：A。Q89的E提到了一开始的对于机器的投资费用极大，所以省不了多少钱，想以此来support作者的argument。但是原论证讨论的是自动化后，由于下岗工人的费用，不省钱，要support必须要支持说那些工人的开支确实不可避免。所以,E无关，OG 11th给的解释是：the equipment costs that are incurred immediately upon automating are not relevant to the argument. In the passage, the author maintains that corporations will eventually pay for the costs of increased government assistance, and it is those long-term costs on which the argument is based.

由此可以看到GWD-3-17的D，类似地也是一个无关的选项，可以排除。

娜娜仁

楼上mm在OG上答案的方向好象是针对费用发生的时间差别来选答案的吧,你所说的费用没有省应该属于自己主观推出的和现在讨论题一致的地方吧???