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 citys 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?A. Even homeowners whose yards do not have water-conserving landscapes can conserve water by installing water-saving devices in their homes. 无关
B. A conventional landscape generally requires a much greater expenditure on fertilizer and herbicide than does a water-conserving landscape.正确。
C. A significant proportion of the residents of the city live in buildings that do not have yards. 无关
D. It costs no more to put in water-conserving landscaping than it does to put in conventional landscaping. 省水装置没比美化装置贵。为什么D不对呢? E. Some homeowners use more water to maintain their yards than they use for all other purposes combined.
D选项说的是put in new water-conserving landscape比 put in conventional landscaping要便宜。这一点是无关比较,文中主要的矛盾点在于,转换new water-conserving landscape与维持conventional landscaping的成本比较