Imagine for a moment that your unborn child has a rare genetic disorder. Not 【小题1】 at least vaguely familiar, such as sickle-cell anaemia or cystic fibrosis, but rather a condition 【小题2】 (bury) deep within the medical dictionary. Adrenoleukodys trophy, maybe. Or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Would you, when your child is born, 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 newborn had five years of life【小题3】 (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 (显现) themselves only gradually, and often with unpredictable severity. But that may soon change. Twenty years after the first human genome 【小题4】 (map), the price of whole-genome sequencing has fallen to a point 【小题5】 it 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 【小题6】 drugs 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, 【小题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 new technology create new dangers. Widespread screening for thousands of potentially harmful genes may be counterproductive: some results may worry parents unnecessarily, because some genetic variations, 【小题8】 occasionally indicative of disease, are not strongly so. Parents may not want to unlock all the secrets that their newborn’s genome might reveal. Some may indeed prefer not to know about conditions that cannot be treated. Adult-onset illnesses pose a different dilemma — a reasonable position is that it 【小题9】 be up to the children themselves, once grown, to decide whether they want to look at their genomic information. A further concern is that data will not be kept secure, and may be leaked or otherwise misused 【小题10】 some point in the future.

China will emerge stronger from the coronavirus challenge, experts said at a seminar here on Tuesday, while 【小题1】 (praise) China’s efforts to stop the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic (传染病).

Speaking at the seminar 【小题2】   (title) “Battling Coronavirus, ”Sumit Mullick，chief information commissioner of India’s southwestern state of Maharashtra, said that China has created a new criterion in addressing a health issue by quarantining (隔离) Wuhan, the epicenter city of the virus outbreak.

“The coronavirus does not understand or respect borders. It does not need a visa or passport.” Mullick said. “Challenges are 【小题3】 (true) in global in nature. ”

However, Chinese labs have quickly decoded the genetic sequence of the coronavirus and shared it with the world, 【小题4】 is now working on a new vaccine, he said.

R. N. Bhaskar, a senior journalist and consulting editor with Indian English newspaper Free Press Journal, said that China is doing all it can   【小题5】 (contain) the spread of the virus and create a vaccine.

“As   【小题6】 very big player in the global economy, there will be negative impact 【小题7】 the Chinese economy for a temporary period. However, thanks to the swift responses to the virus outbreak, the Chinese economy will overcome this crisis and emerge stronger,” he added.

Health officials at the panel discussion also listed the steps   【小题8】 (take) to fight the virus and shared their experiences in countering misinformation and creating   【小题9】   (aware) among the public at large.

The event   【小题10】 (organize) jointly by the Observer Research Foundation, a think-tank body, along with the Chinese Consulate General in Mumbai.

Wearing a yellow hat, vest and face mask, Munyaradzi Gurure stood at the Yulin train station in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, 【小题1】(busy) checking the body temperature of passengers at the entrance.

Though 【小题2】(overwhelm) by the news of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the 21-year-old student at Guangxi University of Finance and Economics from South Africa has still stepped out to serve as a volunteer in the train station 【小题3】 ( help) battle the epidemic.

“I’m well aware of the situation of epidemic prevention and control is very severe,” he said. “【小题4】(see) that many people actively joined in the fight, I also wanted to do my part and volunteer at the station.”

With the number of novel coronavirus cases 【小题5】 (continue) to rise both in and outside of China, Gurure’s family back in South Africa was very worried about his health, and hoped he would quit the volunteer job.

“I told my parents China has taken a lot of strong quarantine measures and is 【小题6】(actual) safe,” he said.

“I want to do whatever I can 【小题7】( prevent) the spread of the infection.The country took really good care of me during the last three years. Now it’s my turn.”

Though it’s not easy work, Gurure came across many Chinese passengers 【小题8】 are very surprised to see a foreign face, but then give a thumbs up and say “very good” to him in Chinese.

Gurure’s foreign classmates 【小题9】(find) out about his volunteer job and sent 【小题10】(message) saying “good job”, some showing interest in joining him to help curb the spread of the virus.