In the Age of Genetics, you no longer have to try to cut out smoking or think

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问题 In the Age of Genetics, you no longer have to try to cut out smoking or think twice
about gobbling that candy bar in your desk drawer. And forget jogging in a cold morn-【M1】_____
lng. The die was cast long ago,
from the moment when the parental sperm and egg first                               【M2】_____
integrate. The resulting package of chromosomes
has programmed every step of your life. So sit                                     【M3】_____
back, relax and leave the driving with someone else.
But one problem remains: this new world order                                     【M4】_____
is at sharp odd with an older theism,
that blame can and must be assigned in every human transac-                         【M5】_____
tion. We have built a vast judicial-industrial complex that offers lawsuits for every need, satisfying
various urges like the wish for fairness or revenge,
for getting rich quick or simply getting your due.                                  【M6】_____
This all-blame all-the-time approach applies to
much more than determining culpability would a                                     【M7】_____
neighbor trip on your lawn and break an arm. It also says that people are responsible for their own
health-and illness.
It is your error if you develop cancer or a heart attack because you didn’t eat, 【M8】_____
think or breathe right. You have allowed the corrosive effect of unresolved anger or stress or poor
self-esteem undermine your health.
So if you are sick or miserable or both, it’s your own darned                      【M9】_____
fault. No wonder we fled. The transition from the chaotic, barking family feud character of lawsuitsto the sleek silence of a future devotes to
cloning and splicing genes surely derives from something                            【M10】_____
larger than scientific opportunity or our fascination with"Star Trek. " [br] 【M9】

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答案 self-esteem ∧ undermine改成to

解析注意动词不定式，allow sth/sb to do sth。

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