In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides (1)_________ computer processing resources and data to
computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises (2)_______ various
capabilities to store and process their data in third-party data centres. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it
comes to running applications. The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing or high-performance computing
power, normally used by military and research (3)______, to perform tens of trillions of computations per second, in consumer-oriented
application such as financial (4)__________, to deliver personalised information and to provide data storage. In 2013, it was reported that
cloud computing had become a highly demanded service or (5)_________ due to the advantages of high computing power, cheap cost of
services, high performance, scalability, accessibility as well as availability.