补全短文(第46-50题,每题2分,共10分)
下面的短文有5处空白,短文后有6个句子,其中5个取自短文,请根据短文内容将其分别放回原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。
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.
参考答案及解析
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。
47.E[解析]根据第二段内容,可以看出此处需要填的内容和"grow and claange withthe family"有关,因此选E。
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。