I the future with excitement as we are moving to a new house next week.

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 morn 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;time we will be living in“intelligent”houses．We will be able to talk to our kitchen machines and discuss withthem what to do．1ake 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 beable to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thingyou won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machinewill tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will ourhome be like then？ E．The house ofthe future will have to grow and change with the family． F．The kids mighttake their bedrooms with them as they leave．

(47)

A．You will beable to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thingyou won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machinewill tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will ourhome be like then？ E．The house ofthe future will have to grow and change with the family． F．The kids mighttake their bedrooms with them as they leave．

(48)

A．You will beable to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thingyou won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machinewill tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will ourhome be like then？ E．The house ofthe future will have to grow and change with the family． F．The kids mighttake their bedrooms with them as they leave．

(49)

A．You will beable to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thingyou won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machinewill tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will ourhome be like then？ E．The house ofthe future will have to grow and change with the family． F．The kids mighttake their bedrooms with them as they leave．

(50)

A．You will beable to change the color of the wall easily． B．The only thingyou won&39;t be able to do is move the house somewhere else! C．And the machinewill tell us what food we will have to buy and how to cook it． D．What will ourhome be like then？ E．The house ofthe future will have to grow and change with the family． F．The kids mighttake their bedrooms with them as they leave．

Soaps on TV Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester, a city in Britain. It was sold as a kitchen sink drama serial about the domestic lives of the working class in the north of England. Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960 and for 50 years it has remained at the center of ITV’s prime time. The programme is currently shown in the UK in five episodes, over three evenings a week on ITV. The first episode of Coronation Street on 9 December 1960 was watched in 3,501,000 million homes, which equates to 7,702,200 viewers. Today it is watched in 11,430,000 homes. Neighbors is an Australian soap opera. It was first broadcast on the 18 March 1985. The show focuses on realistic stories and has adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems together. Neighbors’ main focus is the fictional Ramsay Street, a residential cul-de-sac in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough. At its peak in the late 1980s, when it was shown in Britain, Neighbors attracted more than 20 million British viewers, which was more than the entire population of Australia at that time. However, figures have dropped and as of July 2010, the teatime showing now averages 1.4 million viewers. Tick the correct answer. Which programme has been running the longest?

A、Neighbors, it was shown in Britain in 1980.

B、Coronation Street, it is about the working class in the north of England.

C、Coronation Street, it has been on TV for more than 50 years.

D、Coronation Street, it is shown three times a week.