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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]該空格的前一句…architects are trying to predict(the houses of the future)，從第二段起是對未來房子的描述。此處填"What will our home be like then?"最為合適，起到承上啟下的作用。
　　48.B [解析]第三段講未來的廚房是智能的，我們可以和廚房里的機器交談，因此選B。
　　49.C[解析]這一段講房子可以自己改變顏色，所以C是正確答案。
　　50.D[解析]選項F放在此處顯得唐突，因為文章沒有對臥室進行描寫。而選項D是對未來房子整體上的描述，適合做為文章的最后一句話。
　　參考譯文
　　未來的房子
　　三十多年后的房子會是什么樣?沒有人真的知道，但是建筑師正在試圖預(yù)測。那么我們的房子將會是什么樣的呢?
　　未來的房子要靈活。三十年后，更多的人會在家里辦公。所以我們必須能夠使用房子的一部分辦公，另一部分用于生活。隨著孩子的出生、成長和離開家，家庭情況也會隨之發(fā)展、變化。未來的房子要能和家庭一起發(fā)展、變化。沒有什么會像現(xiàn)在一樣固定下來。房子將總是在變化，以滿足變化中的需求。
　　未來的房屋將是個人的--每個房子都會不同。你可以輕而易舉地改變墻的顏色。你不必去粉刷它們--你可以告訴墻，讓它自己改變顏色!如果第二天你不喜歡這顏色了，你可以再換一個新顏色。你不能做的是把房子搬到其他地方去!