B. Once you get a good nights rest, your body recovers, and the next morning, youre standing tall again.
C. Over time, bone is said to be lost because its not being replaced.
D. Luckily, there are things that people can do to prevent shrinking.
E. The kids spend the rest of the movie as tiny people who are barely visible while trying to get back to their normal size.
F. But why does shrinking happen at all?
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One Good Reason to Let Smallpox Live
Its now a fair bet that we will never see the total extinction of the smallpox virus. The idea was to cap the glorious achievement of 1980, when smallpox was eradicated in the wild, by destroying the killer virus in the last two labs that are supposed to have it —— one in the US and one in Russia? If smallpox had truly gone from the planet, what point Was there in keeping these reserves?
__1__reality, of course, it was naive to __2 __ that everyone would let __3__ of such a potent potential weapon. Undoubtedly several nations still have__4__ vials. __5__ the last "official" stocks of live virus bred mistrust of the US and Russia,__6__ no obvious gain.
Now American researchers have __7__ an animal model of the human disease, opening the __8__for tests on new treatments and vaccines. So once again theres a good reason to__9__ the virus——just in __10__ the disease puts in a reappearance.
词汇:
smallpox n.天花
vial n.小瓶
auspices n.赞助;支持
cap vt.结束;覆盖
potent adj.有效力的;强有力的
mistrust n.不信任,怀疑