Part: You will hear a short extract about quantum computing.

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MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each blank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDOn_n7tNyo

 Quantum Computing is expected to solve some of the world’s problems, from making new
materials to creating more ____________________________________. The technology is still
in its infancy but the effort is quickly ____________________________________.
 Some tricky problems are easier to be solved by quantum computers. One of such is in
encryption – kind of codes protecting your ____________________________________ online.
 That kind of thing gets the attention of national governments: the ability to crack other
countries’ ____________________________________.
 China and America both get involved in quantum computing. That is because the prize, the
__________________________________ or commercial advantage that quantum computing
offers is enormous.
 Yet quantum computers are now still like regular computers in the 1950s: big
_________________________________ things that require a pile of PhDs to work.
 Speaking of quantum computing, people regard them as __________________________, all-
powerful machine or universal computer. Yet it is a distant prospect, there will be smaller
machines that are more _____________________________. Those machines are hard to run as
they need to be held at temperatures lower than that of space in controlled
________________________________.
 In fact, quantum computers can’t replace your computers. You do not need them to edit photos
or send emails but you can use them as a kind of ____________________________ in the cloud.

KEY
1. Precise climate models
2. Gaining momentum
3. Credit-card detail(s)
4. Encrypted networks
 Encrypted: to put information into a special code, especially in order to prevent people from
looking at it without authority
5. Potential strategic
6. Basement-sized
7. All-singing: having a lot of advanced technical features and therefore able to perform many
different functions
8. Specific-purpose
9. Laboratory environment
10. Time-share basis