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II.Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically
correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word,for the other
blanks.use one word that best fits each blank
Imagine for a moment that your unborn child has a rare genetic disorder.Not1at least vaguely
familiar,such as sickle-cell anaemia or cystic fibrosis,but rather a condition 2(bury)deep within the
medical dictionary.Adrenoleukodys trophy,maybe.Or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
Would you,when your child is bomn,want to know about it?If effective treatments were available,you
probably would.But if not?If the outcome were fatal,would your interest in knowing about it depend on whether
your newbom had five years of life3(look)forward to,or ten?Or 30?
Today these questions are mostly hypothetical.Precisely because they are rare.such disorders are seldom
noticed at birth.They manifest (themselves only gradually,and often with unpredictable severity.But that
may soon change.Twenty years after the first human genome4(map),the price of whole-genome
sequencing has fallen to a point5it could,in rich countries at least,be offered routinely to newborns.
Parents will then have to decide exactly how much they want to know.
Early diagnosis brings with it the possibility of early treatment.Moreover,sequencing the genomes of
newborns could offer a lifetime of returns.A patient's genome may reveal 6drugs will work best in his
or her particular case for conditions such as ADHD,depression and cancer.Combined with information about
someone's way of life,it could highlight easily neglected health risks such as cancers and cardiovascular disease,
leading to better preventive measures.A database of genomes,7(match)to living people,would be a
benefit to medical research.The fruits of that research,in turn,would make those genomes more useful to their
owners as time goes on.
Such a powerful