____ 1. the form or structure of something, or the way in which it is organized____ 2. with a lot of details or small parts, which makes something difficult to understand or deal with____ 3. possible or likely in the future____ 4. to become involved in a situation in order to try to stop or change it____ 5. to discover the origin of something or how it developed____ 6. a set of related things that happen or are arranged in a particular order____ 7.a detailed plan for doing something new, or something that is a model for how something should be done____ 8. to discover or explain exactly what something is____ 9. a creature with a long soft body and no bones or legs____ 10. an animal or human before it is born, when it is beginning to develop and grow____ 11. used for emphasizing the amount or degree of something____ 12. the complete set of genes in a living thing____ 13. a claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong____ 14. impressive and beautiful or exciting____ 15. to separate a substance from others using a scientific process____ 16.to be born with the same appearance or character as one of your parents
_____ 1. You can judge whether one is simply overweight or has passed into the obese stage according to the height-weight table._____ 2. Using the "Body Mass Index” to define a person's weight ideal is limited, because it does not takes into account many variables such as age, gender and ethnic origin._____ 3. A person's emotional well-being would be affected by obesity._____ 4. Obesity has something to do with cancer in the prostate gland for man._____ 5. Women from less affluent nations tend to have much less breast cancer._____ 6. A non-overweight woman who smokes 20 cigarettes a day for 20 years added 7.4 years to her biological age._____ 7. The excess body fat, like the chemicals present in tobacco smoke, can lead to inflammation._____ 8. Obese people in middle age run an increased risk of dementia ._____ 9. The predictive test for dementia will help people to affect lifestyle changes that will reduce their risk of contracting dementia._____ 10. The world-wide upsurge in obesity, particularly in children, will possibly drain economies.
But the most important use of the new understanding of our genetic sequence will be in medicine and will change it __1__. By looking at our genetic make-up and how it __2__ between individuals we can learn why some people __3__ better to drug treatment than others. Doctors hope that by isolating the genes that respond to __4__ drugs we can pinpoint exactly what we need to do to __5__ a problem. The final hope, of course, is to identify possible problems such as cancer before they __6__. Then we may be able to __7__ special drugs that are __8__ for particular groups of __9__. The possibility of being able to intervene and stop problems before they happen has led to accusations that we are "__10__ with nature". Like other great scientific advances, the sequence of the human genome can be used for good or bad purposes.