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Houses of the Future
What will houses be like in thirty years' time? No one really knows, but architects are trying topredict. _______(46)
Future houses will have to be flexible. In thirty years' time even more of us will be working from home. So we will have to be able to use areas of the houses for work for part of the day and for living for the rest. Families grow and change with children arriving growing up and leaving home. ________(47) Nothing will be as fixed as it is now. The house will always be changing to meet changing needs.
Everyone agrees that in thirty years' time we will be live in "intelligent" houses. We will be able to talk to our kitchen and discuss with them what to do. Like this, "We'll be having a party this weekend. What food shall we cook?" ________.(48) We will be able to leave most of the cooking to the machines, just tasting things from time to time to check.
The house of the future will be personal-each house will be different. _______(49) You won't have to paint them-you'll be able to tell the wall to change the color! And you don't like the color the next day, you'll be able to have a new one. _______(50)
A. What will our home be like then?
B. And the machine will tell us that food we will have to buy and how to cook it.
C. You will be able to change the color of the wall easily.
D. The only thing you won't be able to do is move the house somewhere else!
E. The house of the future will have to grow and change with the family.
F. The kid might take their bedrooms with them as they leave.
解析：
46.A[解析]该空格的前一句…architects are trying to predict(the houses of the future)，从第二段起是对未来房子的描述。此处填"What will our home be like then?"最为合适，起到承上启下的作用。
48.B [解析]第三段讲未来的厨房是智能的，我们可以和厨房里的机器交谈，因此选B。
49.C[解析]这一段讲房子可以自己改变颜色，所以C是正确答案。
50.D[解析]选项F放在此处显得唐突，因为文章没有对卧室进行描写。而选项D是对未来房子整体上的描述，适合做为文章的最后一句话。
参考译文
未来的房子
三十多年后的房子会是什么样?没有人真的知道，但是建筑师正在试图预测。那么我们的房子将会是什么样的呢?
未来的房子要灵活。三十年后，更多的人会在家里办公。所以我们必须能够使用房子的一部分办公，另一部分用于生活。随着孩子的出生、成长和离开家，家庭情况也会随之发展、变化。未来的房子要能和家庭一起发展、变化。没有什么会像现在一样固定下来。房子将总是在变化，以满足变化中的需求。
未来的房屋将是个人的--每个房子都会不同。你可以轻而易举地改变墙的颜色。你不必去粉刷它们--你可以告诉墙，让它自己改变颜色!如果第二天你不喜欢这颜色了，你可以再换一个新颜色。你不能做的是把房子搬到其他地方去!
