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a) it stems from women's stamina that they are outlived by men
b) most discussants forget that the female lag behind the male in living a healthy life
c) unless what we mean by "stronger" is clarified, there is no point in disputing over
which sex is more powerful
d) men are stronger than women only in a few kinds of activities
Is it possible to mould the unborn child's character by the conduct of the
mother during
pregnancy? What we know of prenatal development makes all this seem utterly impossible.
How could such extremely complex influences pass from the mother to the child? There is no
connection between their nervous systems. Even the blood vessels of mother and
child
do not join directly. They lie side by side and the chemicals are interchanged through the
walls
by a process that we call osmosis. An emotional shock to the mother will influence her child,
because it alters the activity of her glands and so the chemistry of her blood. Any chemical
change in the mother's blood will affect the child -for better or worse. However, we cannot see
how a liking for mathematics or poetic genius can be dissolved in the
blood and produce a
similar liking or genius in the child.
22. It is expressed in the passage that.........................
a) the activity of the baby's glands may give us insights into how we could imprint certain
characteristics in the baby's brain
b) if the blood vessels of the child and mother were directly interconnected, any trait dissolved
in the blood would pass to the child
c) an emotional suffering of the mother influences the baby so much that it will possibly be
born to be psychologically ill
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