Which best identifies a counterclaim in "Improve the Zoo"?

Some will insist that spending $5 million on animals is foolish. “Spend that money on people,” they will argue. Certainly, it’s a good idea to repair the city’s streets. And remodeling the high school library is important.
Central City Zoo is small and old. Though it backs up to 400 acres of city-owned woods, it sits on just 50 acres of land. Due to the zoo’s size, its animals live in the same cramped, barred cages built-in 1946.
The School Board argued in favor of remodeling the high school library. These are both good ideas. However, the most necessary and effective use of the budget surplus is to improve the Central City Zoo.
So the current facility is not merely imperfect but also immoral. And improving it is not only a practical decision. It is the right decision.

Some will insist that spending $5 million on animals is foolish. “Spend that money on people,” they will argue. Certainly, it’s a good idea to repair the city’s streets. And remodeling the high school library is important.

Option 1.

Explanation:

A counterclaim is something contrary to the contention, or the restricting contention. An explanation explains why the case is made and is upheld by the proof. Proof is the realities or research to help your case. I trust you win your next contention!

In this question, counterclaim opts for a statement which is in inverse of the improvement of the condition of the zoo. The statement of counterclaim says that there is no need to spend money on the improvement of zoo and instead money should be spent on improving condition of the city.

covert: hidden or secret

candid: truthful and straightforward

what i get from these phrases is covert means undercover or underground and that's where the flower is in april. on the other hand, may is the month where flowers start to bloom and thats the reason why candid is being used as a word to describe the blossoming period of a flower.

hope this answer you.

they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.  

explanation:

if they were going to steal the answers that is simply because they insisted that there was not enough time to learn everything.