A Minor MicrosurgeryLast year,Sean Martinovich,from Whitianga,had life-saving surgery when agolf-sized tumor was removed from his brain stem.But the operation left

half his faceparalysed.He talked with a slur,sometimes dribbled（流 口水）out of the side of his mouth andcould not close his eye properly.Although he could run around

with the other boysin the playground,when they laughed he could not laugh with them.Without asmile,he could suffer psychologically and emotionally. Last week,6-year-

old Sean had sevenhours of microsurgery that should give him back his smile.Doctor Bartlett removed a nervefrom the back of one of Sean's legs and transplanted it into his

face.On the normalside of his face the nerve divides into lots of little branches."We'll cutthose nerve branches and then we'll take a nerve graft from one leg and tunnelit

across his face fromone side to the other and join that on to the nerve that' s been cut on thegood side of his face."Doctor Bartlett said before the operation."Ifthis was not

fixed he conld facephysical and emotional problems as he got older,"Doctor Bartlettsaid."Socially people can become quite withdrawn because of the faceparalysis.It's easy

forpeople,especially children,to become rather emotionless because they prefer theflatness of no movement on either side to the weirdness of an asymmetry ofsmiling on

one side and havingthis twisted face." Sean is not smiling yet.Over the next six months thenerves will grow across the face to the damaged side and after that movementwill

hopefully comeback.Sean's parents,Steve and Wendy Martinovich,said they had been through ayear of hell.But their son was a determined boy who just got on with it,said

Mrs Martinovich.Theyare amazed at the technology that they hope will restore the cheeky smile theylove so much.For Doctor Bartlett the microsurgery is almost routine.For

Sean's parents,it isa miracle.Theword"paralysed"in Paragraph 1 most probably means______.

A.slur dribbled

B.lost of feeling inor control of body muscles

C.unable to openone's mouth

D.psychologicallyand emotionally disabled