2014年职称英语理工类补全短文模拟习题（2）

Houses of 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 fromhome．So we will have to be able to use areas of the house for work for part of the day and for livingfor 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 meetchanging needs．

　　Everyone agrees that in thirty yeasr's time we will be living in"intelligent"houses．We will beable to talk to our kitchen machines and discuss with them what to do．Like this，"we'll be haying aparty this weekend．What food shall we cook?"_________(48)．We will be able to leave most ofthe cooking to the machines，just tasting things from time to time to check．

　　The house of the future will be personal-each house，__________(49)，you won't haye to paintthem-you'll be able to tell the wall to change the color!And if you don't like the color the next day． You will be able to have a new one．______(50)．

　　A．you will be able to change the color of the wall easily

　　B．the only thing you won't be able to do is moving the house soreewhere else

　　C．and the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how t0 cook it

　　D．what will our home be like

　　E．the house of the future will have to grow and change with the family

　　F．the kids might take their bedrooms with them as thev have