Food and oxygen pass easily from mother to fetus(an unborn baby). Now it seems that fleeting sadness or happiness is also【B1】______to an unborn baby. Stress or depression in pregnancy can【B2】______a fetus, but less is known about the【B3】______of transient emotions. To【B4】______, Kazuyuki Shinohara and colleagues at Nagasaki University in Japan showed 10 pregnant volunteers a cheery 5-minute clip from the musical The Sound of Music. Another 14 watched a tear-jerking 5 minutes from The Champ. Each clip was sandwiched between two "neutral" samples【B5】______the team could【B6】______any changes in fetal movements against a baseline. The women listened to the films through headphones to【B7】______that only the effect of their【B8】______, not the sounds, were being measured. "Fetuses can hear by the last three months," says Shinohara. The team【B9】______the number of arm, leg and whole body movements【B10】______ultrasound and found that during the happy film clip the fetuses moved their arms【B11】______more than when the pregnant women watched a neutral clip.【B12】______, the fetuses of sad women moved their arms less. What makes the【B13】______of happy mothers wave isnt clear.【B14】______, such movement is a(n) 【B15】______of a working nervous and motor system, says Alexander Heazell at the University of Manchester, UK. He says the study offers us insights into how【B16】______influences affect fetuses. Shinohara suggests that sadness【B17】______more of the "fight or flight" hormone, which redirects blood away from the uterus. The fetus diverts the reduced blood【B18】______to its brain and heart and away from its limbs.【B19】______its too early to use the study to【B20】______women.
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To which of the following would John Davis most probably agree?
A. Taking time off can not avoid or fix burnout for sure.
B. Many bosses are quite concerned about job fatigue.
C. Managers have strived to prevent burnout but in vain.
D. Many CEOs may not know their burnout levels at all.
It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that
A. companies spend less money in PR than in advertisements.
B. advertising campaigns are independent from PR.
C. PR firms are planning to enlarge their business scopes.
D. advertising companies are lacking in core competitiveness.