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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 to predict.
___________ (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 living in"intelligent"houses.We will be able to talk
to our kitchen machines 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一each house will be different._______________(49)You won't have
to paint them一you'll be able to tell the wall to change the color!And if you don't like the color the next
day,you'll be able to have a new one.____________(50)
_________（49）
A.The oniy thing you won't be able to do is move the house somewhere else!
B.What will our home be like then?
C.And the machine will tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it.
D.You will be able to change the color of the wall easily.
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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Houses in 18th Century North America
Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America were simple structures that were primarily functional,carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages.During the first half of the eighteenth century,however,houses began to show a new elegance.As wealth increased, more and more colonists built fine houses.
Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies,the design of buildings was left either to amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England.Inventories of colonial libraries show an astonishing number of these handbooks for builders,and the houses erected during the eighteenth century show their influence.Nevertheless,most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displays a wide divergence of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down in these books.
Increasing wealth and growing sophistication throughout the colonies resulted in houses of improved design,whether the material was wood,stone or brick.New England still favored wood, though brick houses became common in Boston and towns, where the danger of fire gave an impetus to the use of more durable material. A few houses in New England were built of store,but only in Pennsylvania and adjacent area was stone widely used in dwellings.An increased use of brick in houses and outbuildings is noticeable in Virginia and Maryland,but wood remained the most popular material even in houses built by wealthy landowners.In the Carolinas,even in closely packed Charleston,wooden houses were much more common than brick.
Eighteenth-century houses showed great interior improvement over their predecessors.Windows were made larger and shutters removed.Large,clear panes replaced the small leaded glass of the seventeenth century.Doorways were larger and more decorative.Fireplaces became decorative features of rooms.Walls were made of plaster or wood,sometimes elaborately paneled.White paint began to take the place of blues,yellows,greens,and lead colors,which had been popular for walls in the earlier years.After about 1730,advertisements for wallpaper styles in scenic patterns began to appear in colonial newspapers.
What does the author imply about the use of wallpaper before 1730?
A.Wallpaper samples appeared in the architectural manuals.
B.Wallpaper was the same color as the paints used.
C.Patterned wallpaper was not widely used.
D.Wallpaper was not in stone houses.
