Answer to Dictation 1
Something under frozen ground that contains many deadly diseases.
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Answer to Dictation 2
Ancient microbes have been trapped for millennia in the permafrost.
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Answer to Dictation 3
It is common high in mountains and near the North and South Poles.
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Answer to Dictation 4
The result could be the release of unknown and harmful viruses.
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Answer to Dictation 5
We know little about Factor X and the biological dangers.
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Answer to Dictation 6
There are viruses deep in the permafrost that are more than 50,000 years old.
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Answer to Dictation 7
Ancient viruses up to a million years old would be the most terrifying.
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Answer to Dictation 8
They are unknown and we have never encountered them before.
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Answer to Dictation 9
A bigger danger from melting permafrost is the release of methane.
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Answer to Dictation 10
This is a greenhouse gas that is 80 times more harmful than CO2.
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