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Houses of the Future What will houses be like in thirty years&39;time？ No one really knows

Houses of the Future

What will houses be like in thirty years&39;time？ No one really knows，but architectsare trying to predict．(46)______

Future houses will have to be flexible．In thirty years&39; time even more of us will be working from home．So we will have to be able to use areas of the house for work forpart 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&39; timewe will be living in“intelligent”houses．We will be able to talk to our kitchen machines and discuss withthem what to do．Like this：“We&39;ll be having a party this weekend．What food shall we cook？”(48)______We will be able to leave mostof the cooking to the machines，just tastingthings from time to time to check．

The house of the future will bepersonal-each house will be different．(49)______You won&39;t have to paint them-you&39;ll be able to tell thewall to change the color! And if you don&39;t like the color the next day，you will be able to have a new one．(50)______

(46)

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

B．The only thing you won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else!

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

D．What will our home be like then？

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 they leave．

(47)

A．You will be able to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thing you won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will our home be like then？ 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 they leave．

(48)

A．You will be able to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thing you won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will our home be like then？ 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 they leave．

(49)

A．You will be able to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thing you won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will our home be like then？ 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 they leave．

(50)

A．You will be able to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thing you won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will our home be like then？ 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 they leave．

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第1题
A．We should focus on the future life.B．We should react to life rather than act.C．We sh

A．We should focus on the future life.

B．We should react to life rather than act.

C．We should build our houses in life.

D．We should always do our best.

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第2题
In his classic novel, The Pioneer, James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, t
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第3题
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2. Most, failing foul of strict building regulations, have been forced to dismantle their individualistic homes and return to more conventional lifestyles. But subterranean suburbia, Dutchstyle, is about to become respectable and chic. Seven luxury homes cosseted away inside a high earth-covered noise embankment next to the main Tilburg city road recently went on the market for $ 296,500 each. The foundations had yet to be dug, but customers queued up to buy the unusual part-submerged houses, whose back wall consists of a grassy mound and whose front is a long glass gallery.

3. The Dutch are not the only would-be moles. Growing numbers of Europeans are burrowing below ground to create houses, offices, discos and shopping malls. It is already proving a way of life in extreme climates; in winter months in Montreal, Canada, for instance, citizens can escape the cold in an underground complex complete with shops and even health clinics. In Tokyo builders are planning a massive underground city to be begun in the next decade, and underground shopping malls are already common in Japan, where 90 percent of the population is squeezed into 20 percent of the landspace.

4. Building big commercial buildings underground can be a way to avid disfiguring r threatening a beautiful or &39;environ-mentally sensitive&39; landscape. Indeed many of the buildings which consume most land--such as cinemas, supermarkets, theatres, warehouses or libraries— have no need to be on the surface since they do not need windows.

5. There are big advantages, too, when it comes to private homes. A developrrient of 194 houses which would take up 14 hectares of land above ground would occupy 2.7 hectares below it, while the number of roads would be halved. Under several metres of earth, noise is minimal and insulation is excellent. &39;We get 40 to 50 enquiries a week, &39; says Peter Carpenter, secretary of the British Earth Sheltering Association, which builds similar homes in Britain. &39; people see this as a way of building for the future. &39; An underground dweller himself, Carpenter has never paid a heating bill, thanks to solar panels and natural insulation.

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A. they sell more quicklyB. were known for their under ground homeC. the plans for future homesD. noise embankmentE. a natural environmentF. South Limberg Planners

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第4题
Whatdowemeanbyasatisfactorystandardofliving？Obviously,itmustincludethebasicnecessities

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A.the basic necessities and luxury

B.many kinds of need such as food, clothing and houses

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第5题
The population of the United States is only 6% of the world's population, but Americans【21

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【21】

A．conserve

B．consume

C．produce

D．supply

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The Threat to Kiribati

The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth-literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. “This never happened before," say the older citizens of Kiribati.

What is causing these mysterious high tides？ The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (级地的) ice caps.

If the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate-they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone's loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.

The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They don't have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.

The people of Kiribati worry that one day their country will be taken away by a sudden high tide.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

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第7题
The Threat to Kiribati The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-dista

The Threat to Kiribati

The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth-literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. "This never happened before," say the older citizens of Kiribati.

What is causing these mysterious high tides？ The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps.

If the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate-they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone's loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.

The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They don't have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.

The people of Kiribati worry that one day their country will be taken away by a sudden high tide.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

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第8题
The Threat to Kiribati The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-dist

The Threat to Kiribati

The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth - literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain. "This never happened before," say the older citizens of Kiribati.

What is causing these mysterious high tides？ The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps.

if the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate - they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone's loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.

The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They don't have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.

第 16 题 The people of Kiribati worry that one day their country will be taken away by a sudden high tide.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

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第9题
根据下列文章,请回答 16～22 题。 The Threat to Kiribati The people of Kiribati are afra

根据下列文章,请回答 16～22 题。

The Threat to Kiribati

The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too-distant future, their country will disappear from the face of the earth - literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooded by a sudden high tide. These tides, which swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was neither wind nor rain."This never happened before," say the older citizens of Kiribati.

What is causing these mysterious high tides？ The answer may well be global warming. When fuels like oil and coal are being burned, pollutants (污染物) are released; these pollutants trap heat in the earth's atmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause water to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers (冰川) and polar (极地的) ice caps.

If the trend continues, scientists say, many countries will suffer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral (珊瑚) island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however, would face an even worse fate - they would be swallowed by the sea. The loss of these coral islands would be everyone's loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.

The people of these nations feel frustrated. The sea, on which their economies have always been based, is suddenly threatening their existence. They don't have the money for expensive technological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released mainly by activities in large industrialized countries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollution.

第 16 题 The people of Kiribati worry that one day their country will be taken away by a sudden high tide.

A．Right

B．Wrong

C．Not mentioned

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第10题
William, who conquered England some 930 years ago, had wealth, power and a ruthless army.
Yet although William was stupefyingly rich by the standard of his time, he had nothing remotely resembling a flush toilet. No paper towels, no riding lawn mower. How did he get by？

History books are filled with wealthy people who were practically destitute compared to me, I have tripe-tracked storm window; Croesus did not. Entire nations trembled before Alexander the Great, but he couldn't buy cat food in bulk. Czar Nicholas Ⅱ lacked a compound-miter saw.

Given how much better off I am than so many famous dead people, you'd think I'd be content. The trouble is that, like most people, I compare my prosperity with that of living persons: neighbors, high-school classmates, TV personalities. The covetousness I feel toward my friend Howard's kitchen is not mitigated by the fact that no French monarch ever had a refrigerator with glass doors.

There is really no rising or falling standard of living. Over the centuries people simply find different stuff to feel grumpy about. You'd think that merely not having bubonic plague(腺鼠疫) would put us in a good mood. But no, we want a hot tub too.

Of course, one way to achieve happiness would be to realize that even by contemporary standards the things I own are pretty nice. My house is smaller than the houses of many investment bankers', but even so it has a lot more rooms than my wife's and I can keep clean. Besides, to people looking back at our era from a century or two in the future, those bankers' fancy counter tops and my own worn Formica(福米加塑料桌面)will seem equally shabby. I can't keep up with my neighbor right now. but just wait.

Which of the following was possessed by the King William Ⅰ？

A．Flush toilet

B．Ruthless army

C．Paper towels

D．Riding lawn mower

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