What will houses be like in thirty years’ time? No one really knows, but architects are trying to predict. ________ (1)

    Future houses will have to be flexible. In thirty years’ time even more of us will be workingfrom home. So we will have to be able to use areas of the house for work for part of the day andfor living for the rest. Families grow and change with children arriving, growing up and leavinghome. ________ (2) Nothing will be as fixed as it is now. The house will always be changing tomeet changing needs.

    Everyone agrees that in thirty years’ 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 having a party this weekend. What food shall we cook?” ________ (3) We will be able to leavemost 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. ________ (4) You won’t have to paint them — you’ll be able to tell the wall to change the color! And if you don’tlike the color the next day, you will be able to have a new one. ________ (5)

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 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.

G. You can move your house.