Quantum computing, once a mere theoretical concept, has moved from the realm of science fiction into the real world. The potential of quantum computing is staggering, with the ability to solve complex problems that current computing technology cannot. But what exactly is quantum computing, and how does it differ from the classical computing that we are used to?
In classical computing, bits are used to represent information, with each bit being either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computing uses quantum bits, or qubits, which can exist in multiple states simultaneously. This property allows quantum computers to perform operations on a vast number of inputs simultaneously, reducing the time needed to perform certain tasks from years to seconds.
One of the most promising applications of quantum computing is in cryptography, where it has the potential to break current encryption methods and create new ones that are impossible to break. Additionally, quantum computing could revolutionize fields such as drug discovery and artificial intelligence, allowing for the development of new drugs and more advanced algorithms.
In spite of the vast potential of quantum computing, there are several challenges that need to be addressed before it can become a widespread technology. These challenges include the need for a new approach to hardware design and the development of new software that can take advantage of the unique capabilities of quantum computers.
Despite these challenges, the future looks bright for quantum computing. With continued research and development, quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize technology as we know it.
1. What is one potential application of quantum computing?A.Breaking current encryption methods using classical computing algorithms. |
B.Developing a new way of communication that cannot be eavesdropped on. |
C.Creating a new form of artistic expression by using quantum waves to generate music. |
D.Developing a new type of automobile engine that does not consume fuel, using quantum mechanics. |
A.A type of bit that is used in classical computing. |
B.A type of software used for quantum computing simulations. |
C.A physical representation of an atom used in quantum computing. |
D.A quantum bit that can exist in multiple states at the same time. |
A.By developing new drugs that are impossible to create through classical computing means. |
B.By slowing down the discovery and testing of new drugs. |
C.By making drugs more affordable for those who need them most. |
D.By allowing for the treatment of currently incurable diseases. |
A.By increasing the number of operations that can be performed on a single input. |
B.By using a cutting-edge algorithmic approach that is not utilized by classical computing. |
C.By allowing for the simultaneous processing of a vast number of inputs through complex multi-dimensional arrays. |
D.By using a state-of-the-art communication system to connect quantum processors. |
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【推荐1】Uber and Hyundai have joined forces to develop a flying taxi to be used for the ride-sharing company, and you could order one within three years. The two companies showed a model of the futuristic electric air taxi at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate, said, “We’ve been making satisfactory progress towards a goal of launching Uber Air ride-sharing program by 2023.”
The self-flying electric taxi is designed to carry up to four passengers with a pilot and fly on trips of up to 60 miles. It will be 100% electric, and during the busiest hours will need around five to seven minutes to recharge, according to Hyundai. And while the air taxi will be controlled by a pilot at the beginning, Hyundai believes that in the near future, it could be autonomous.
Hyundai will produce and deploy the air taxis, while Uber will provide airspace support services, connections to ground transport, and the computer system for customers. Mr. Allison added, “We believe Hyundai has the possibility to build Uber Air flying taxis at a great speed unseen in the aerospace industry of the present time, producing high-quality carriers at high volumes to drive down passenger costs per trip.”
According to Uber, the air taxis will first be launched in three cities — Los Angeles, Dallas, and Melbourne. Once the taxis are up and running, they could help to stop the pain of sitting in a long line of cars on a road that cannot move.
Jaiwon Shin, Head of Urban Air Mobility Division at Hyundai Motor Company, added, “We are in a completely new period of time in which the skies above our cities will be opened. Urban Air Mobility will set people free from heavy traffic, so that they can spend more time on activities they care about and enjoy.”
1. What do we know about the air taxi?A.It will have room for four people. | B.It is expected to be used around 2023. |
C.It can fly automatically when launched. | D.It will take several minutes to be fully charged. |
A.Hyundai will volume-produce the air taxis. | B.Uber will help Hyundai deploy the air taxis. |
C.The air taxis will be popular among the rich. | D.The air taxis will be used in the aerospace industry. |
A.The service of Urban Air Mobility. | B.The growth of Urban Air Mobility. |
C.The purpose of Urban Air Mobility. | D.The success of Urban Air Mobility. |
A.Education. | B.Health. | C.Technology. | D.Business. |
According to the US government, wind farms off the Pacific coast could produce 900 gigawatts of electricity every year.Unfortunately, the water there is far too deep for even the tallest windmills to touch bottom.An experiment under way off the coast of Norway, however, could help put them anywhere.
The project, called Hywind, is the world’s first large-scale deepwater wind turbine (涡轮发电机).Although it uses a fairly standard 152-ton, 2.3-megawatt turbine, Hywind represents totally new technology.The turbine will be fixed 213 feet above the water on a floating spar, a technology Hywind’s creator, the Norwegian company StatoilHydro, has developed recently.The steel spar, which is filled with stones and goes 328 feet below the sea surface, will be tied to the ocean floor by three cables ; these will keep the spar stable and prevent the turbine from moving up and down in the waves.Hywind’s stability in the cold and rough sea would prove that even the deepest corners of the ocean are suitable for wind power.If all goes according to the plan, the turbine will start producing electricity six miles off the coast of southwestern Norway as early as September.
To produce electricity on a large scale, a commercial wind farm will have to use bigger turbines than Hywind does, but it’s difficult enough to balance such a large turbine so high on a floating spar in the middle of the ocean.To make that turbine heavier, the whole spar’s center of gravity must be moved much closer to the ocean’s surface.To do that, the company plans to design a new kind of wind turbine, one whose gearbox (变速箱) sits at sea level rather than behind the blades.
Hywind is a test run, but the benefits for perfecting floating wind-farm technology could be extremely large.Out at sea, the wind is often stronger and steadier than close to shore, where all existing offshore windmills are planted.Deep-sea farms are invisible from land, which helps overcome the windmill-as-eyesore objection.If the technology catches on, it will open up vast areas of the planet’s surface to one of the best low-carbon power sources available.
1. The Hywind project uses totally new technology to ensure the stability of_________.
A.the cables which tie the spar to the ocean floor |
B.the spar which is floating in deep-sea water |
C.the blades driven by strong and steady sea wind |
D.the stones filled in the spar below the sea surface |
A.on the sea floor |
B.on the spar top |
C.at sea level |
D.behind the blades |
A.solve the technical problems of deepwater windmills |
B.make financial profits by producing more turbines |
C.settle the arguments about environmental problems |
D.explore low-carbon power resources available at sea |
【推荐3】With all the talk about smart technology and connected homes, you may be wondering why you should take notice.
Efficiency
Smart technology allows you to connect your home’s electronic devices (设备) to one device, such as a phone, tablet or computer. Having a connected home means you have the ability to adjust your thermostat (恒温器), open and close window shades and make your security system start working from a distance.
Convenience
If fixing and operating smart technology equipment sounds difficult and expensive, it’s not. According to the ALA, there are simple and surprisingly inexpensive choices available on today’s market.
Retrofitting (改造)
Erik Anderson is the national sales manager for Lutron Electronics.
“All you have to do is take your existing dimmer (调光器) out of the wall and replace it with a Caseta dimmer, add a smart bridge, and you have the ability to control it from an app or from voice control with Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri,” says Anderson.
For added ease, Lutron’s Caseta Wireless system can combine with Apple, Amazon or Google platforms for use inside your home. And when you are outside, an app or geofencing (虚拟地理围栏) allows you to adjust your inside and/or outside lights, even before you arrive home.
A.Many people want to have a smarter home like this. |
B.That will make your home welcoming to you and your guests. |
C.Your security system starts working before you arrive home after dark. |
D.You can also program those devices to operate when you are not there. |
E.After all, it is not that difficult or inconvenient to turn your lights on and off. |
F.He explains that the Caseta Wireless system is very retrofittable into existing homes. |
G.Home apps can easily change your room into the perfect setting for different activities. |
【推荐1】Coral reefs(珊瑚礁) are a unique ocean ecosystem consisting of rocky structures mainly formed by coral animals and some other ocean life. Despite only covering 0. 2 percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs support at least 25 percent of marine species, as well as providing food and economic security for hundreds of millions of people.
However, coral reefs across the world are under threat. Warmer oceans can cause the coral bleaching(漂白). It happens when the corals lose colored algae(海藻) living in their bodies and turn completely white. Without the algae, the corals lose their main food source and can die. In addition, as oceans become more acidic(酸性的) from absorbing CO₂, corals in acidic conditions become weak in forming reefs.
In 2021, the United Nations reported a 14 percent loss of corals across the world largely from rising sea temperatures in the previous 13 years. Australia declared mass bleaching events in 2022 across large parts of the Great Barrier Reef, four times since 2016. Data from the Philippines showed higher than usual ocean temperatures between 2015 and 2017 had caused a serious three-year bleaching events in reefs across the planet.
Scientists have been cooperating to see how coral reefs can be protected. Thankfully, they find those coral reefs in the hot parts of the globe are the worst affected. They contain corals with better heat resistance. So their research focus on finding genes(基因) for heat tolerance so that they can be passed on to future generations. Biologists also mix corals that are more resilient to higher temperatures with those that are not and the resulting generation has a better chance of survival.
Ultimately, scientists add that without a serious decline in greenhouse gas, 99 percent of the world’s coral reefs will be gone by the end of the century. There is a limit to how quickly corals can adapt warm climate, but if temperatures rise rapidly, then extinction is certain.
1. Which is the main threat to coral reefs?A.Declining ocean acidification. | B.Loss of colored algae. |
C.Increasing sea temperatures. | D.Lack of food source. |
A.No actions are taken to protect coral reefs. |
B.Coral bleaching is the worst in Australia. |
C.Coral reefs have grown rapidly for years. |
D.Coral reefs receive impacts globally. |
A.Reducing greenhouse gas emission. | B.Transplanting them to the hot parts. |
C.Relying on genes science. | D.Limiting their spread. |
A.Where Are Coral Reefs Spread? |
B.How Can Coral Reefs Survive? |
C.Coral Reefs, A New Threat To Ocean Life |
D.Coral Reefs, A Busy Underwater Community |
【推荐2】The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human nealth and the environment.These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations mdustriaHzed(工业化),population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病)and heart disease.
Unfortunately, when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia, China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20,year period, And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico in Nigeria and so on.
And, a diet bad for human beings, is also bad for the environment As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical (热带的)areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all froms of transportation right now.
Mr.Tillman calls the link between diet,the environment and human health,"a dilemma",a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possibte setttemenf is leaving the behind.
1. According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from .A.transportation | B.developing countries |
C.agriculture | D.developed countries |
A.diet, the environment and human health are closely connected |
B.the Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes |
C.people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease |
D.traditional diets are more balanced than the Western diet |
A.industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet |
B.overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases |
C.the examined information comes from developing countries |
D.Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases |
A.call on us to protect the environment |
B.warn us of the danger of the Western diet |
C.remind us of the importance of health |
D.advise us to have a balanced diet |
【推荐3】People from East Asia tend to have more difficulties than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.
Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly (均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.
“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and overlook the mouth.”
According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.
The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.
It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion. Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”
In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.
1. What does the discovery show about Westerners?A.They pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth. |
B.They consider facial expressions universally reliable. |
C.They observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways. |
D.They have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions. |
A.To get their faces impressive. | B.To make a face at each other. |
C.To classify some face pictures. | D.To observe the researchers’ faces. |
A.They do translation more successfully. | B.They study the mouth more frequently. |
C.They examine the eyes more attentively. | D.They read facial expressions more correctly. |
A.The Eye as the Window to the Soul | B.Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions |
C.Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills | D.How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding |