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Passage ★★★☆☆ Questions 1to 5are basedonthe following passage. Whatdoesthefutureholdfortheproblemofhousing?Agooddealdepends, of course, on the meaningof “future”. If one isthinking interms of science fictionandthe spaceage, itisat leastpossibletoassumethat manwill have solvedsuchtrivialandearthl problemsashousing.Writersofsciencefiction, from H.G. Wells onwards, have had little to sa on the subject. The have conveyed the suggestion that men will live in great comfort, with ever conceivable apparatus to make lifesmooth, health and easy, if not happy. Butthe have not said what his housewill be made of. Perhaps some new buildingmaterial,asyetunimagined,will havebeendiscoveredorinventedat least.One ma becertain that bricksand mortar( ， ) will long have 泥灰 灰浆 gone out offashion. But the problems of the next generation or two can more readily be imagined.Scientists havealread pointedoutthat unlesssomething isdone either to restrict the world’s rapid growth in population or to discover and develop new sources of food (or both), millions of people will be dying of starvation or at the best sufferingfrom underfeeding beforethis centur is out. But nobod has yet worked out an plan for housing these growing populations.Admittedlytheworstsituationswilloccurinthe hottestpartsof the world, where housingcan be light structure or in backwardareaswhere standards are traditionall low. But even the minimum shelter requires materialsof some kindand inthe teeming, bulgingtowns the low-standard “housing” of flattened petrol cans and dirt canvas is far morewasteful of ground spacethan can betolerated. Sincethewar, HongKonghassufferedthekindofcrisiswhichislikel toarise in man other places during the next generation. Literall millions of refugees arrived to swell the alread growing population and emergenc steps had to be taken rapidl to prevent squalor(肮脏)and disease and the spread crime. The cit is