Paraphrase the sentences using the words in bold in the text.

Paraphrase the sentences using the words in bold in the text. Go back to the text to see how these words are used there. 1 Scientists appealed officially to the authorities to promote healthy lifestyles. 2 Ms Smiths unconventional lifestyle compensated for the monotony of life we had had in the area. 3 Our contemporaries will never reach the level of Stone Age people in hunting. 4 The prehistoric mentality of our contemporaries is demonstrated in such hobbies as football and picnicking. 5 Social services experts searched the archives thoroughly for information about Ms Smiths relatives. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS THE FLINTSTONE WAY (Geoffrey Lean on a call for Stone Age lifestyles) Humanity39;s way forward is back towards the Stone Age, a leading scientist says. He is calling on governments to build a Paleolithically correct futurequot;. Dr Gustav Milne, of the Institute of Archeology, believes that the modern love of soap operas and shopping, and such recreations as stamp collecting, football and picnicking, all prove that we have never grown out of a prehistoric mentality and that this may be partially responsible for today39;s diseases of anxiety, depression and ill-healthquot;. He says we still have the bodies of hunter-gatherers, and our digestive systems have not yet caught up with the Neolithic farming revolutionquot;. Designed for unprocessed, fresh foods, our stomachs rebel against junk food and we become unhealthy if we do not get enough exercise and fresh air. Our minds, too, are languishing to some extent in the Paleolithicquot;, writes Dr Milne in the current British Archeology Journal, and our hunter-gatherer emotional demandsquot; come out in our enjoyment of open fires and picnicking and the psychological satisfaction of keeping pets or filling homes with pot plants. Playing football and shopping are attempts to make up for the terrible psychological vacuum felt by hunter-gatherers lost in the 20th centuryquot;. Football is a compensation for the hunt, combining the elements of male bonding, adrenalin and the prospects of reward. And when we shop, we sublimate our need to comb the hedgerows for ripe and interesting foodstuffs. We all retain the Stone Age need to acquire, collect and store, although foodstuffs have been replaced by stamps, sea-shells or antiques.quot; People respond to artificial crises in soap operas while often being left cold by great tragedies in the real world, Dr Milne believes, because we have a Paleolithic need to identify with a small extended family or tribal unit, and find it difficult to respond emotionally to over-large groupsquot;. Compelled by market forces and economies of scale to work in big companies and live in large towns, we should instead design more PC (in the new sense of Paleolithically Correct) lifestyles that are based on smaller communities and greater respect for the countryside, he concludes. Small is beautiful because small is Paleolithic.quot;

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1 Scientists called on the authorities to promote healthy lifestyles.
2 Ms Smiths, unconventional lifestyles мейд up for the monotony of life in the area.
3 Our contemporaries will never catch up with the level of Stone Age people in hunting.
4 The prehistoric mentality of our contemporaries comes out in hobbies such as football and picnicking.
5 Social services experts combed the archives thoroughly for information about Ms Smiths relatives.

Tapescript (Ex. 4B)
Interviewer: Do you think our modem lifestyle could be called unhealthy?
Woman interviewee: Ah, yes...modern lifestyles, I think, arc pretty unhealthy... And largely
because we spend too much time rushing and too much time working under stress and er...
I think that we dont have the facilities near our workplace or in our workplace to keep fit and healthy.
Interviewer: So, you think its lack of facilities.
WI: I think employers expect a lot...too much from their employees, they are always asking
for better performance and more results and the result of that is that each individual person
pushes himself or herself harder...er....and they neglect their own health and their own
balance... sense of balance...
So I think that whats most unhealthy about the modem lifestyle is the lack of balance between
work and leisure time. In Britain, the statistics show that we are the nation in Europe that works
the longest hours in our full-time jobs. I think employers should be concerned about that.
I also think that employers should provide facilities and time for their employees to keep fit,
to relax more and even to have some rest during the day. It would be really good, for example,
if in a college like ours, we had a room where you could go and lie down for an hour during the day.
Interviewer: But your college has really good facilities. I have been using them myself twice a week recently...
Wl: Yes, we are lucky, we have sports facilities at college, we have a gym and we have a
swimming pool. So it is possible to lake exercise, but thats an exception, its not the rule,
and most employers push the work ethic, which is all to do with performance, performance,
performance and people feel guilty if they take time to look after themselves. That shouldnt be the case.
Interviewer: But you cant deny that performance is an employers main aim?
WI: A really enlightened employer would recognize the need for exercise, the human needs
that people have, and the need for leisure, the need to spend time with your family and to
follow your own interests. And I think that workers would actually be more efficient and
deliver better results for the employers if there wasnt so much pressure. So 1 think the biggest
problem is stress and I think it comes largely from our results-oriented society.
Interviewer: Would you like to change your present lifestyle?
WI: Er...as for myself Id quite like to do more exercise. I walk a lot, and I enjoy walking.
In summer I play a bit of tennis. Er...but what I think Id like to do most of all is to have a
bit more time for myself, to follow my own interests and thats difficult in a busy work
schedule. So those arc the things Id most like to do. Id also like to...have more lime to
spend with friends and family. As for the future, I think, some employers arc already
learning the lesson that they have to change, but I dont know, its very, very difficult to predict.
Interviewer: Do you think in the future people will be more concerned about having a
healthier lifestyle?
WI: Er...Doctors these days try to do more preventive medicine with patients.
What happens is that you are encouraged to go to the doctor for a health check, and
the doctor will advise you about exercise or about diet...you know thats quite a
significant step forward. Prevention is better than cure.
Another thing that I have noticed is, and I think you have noticed that as well, that
more and more people are paying attention to their diet. I think in a society which is
quite prosperous, where food is freely available and there is a lot of choice of different
types of food, then people pay attention to a diet because they can choose...they
can choose what they eat. In poorer societies where there isnt so much choice its
very difficult to choose what you eat, you eat what there is. You know, we have a
saying, you are what you eat"... So if you eat lots of fattening food, you get fat;
if you cat nice healthy salads and things like that, you stay a bit slimmer. So
I think, diet is a... I think people are more and more concerned with diet, all the
magazines focus on it, all the TV programmes фокус on it, and then a lot of...

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