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studies estimate that correspondingly large numbers never return (5 )______
mate in native waters. The deaths are being caused by the presence of DDT,
a pernicious insecticide voluntarily banned in Britain, in the seas off the
Ligurian coast. (6 )______ eíĩect on marine animals is cumulative rather (7)
______instantaneous, so vvhales returning to the same area year (8 )_______
year £U"e particularly vulnerable. The other major problem is the use of large
físhỉng nets to trap dolphins and whales. Veiy recent laws prohibit Italy’s
ííshing boats, some of (9 )______have drag nets up to 10 kilometres in length,
from entering the area, but as (1 0 )______there is nothing to prevent foreign
boats from fishing (11) ______. The nets are a particular problem and it has
been estimated that approximately 400 dolphins perish in (12)______each year.
The project aims to develop a safe area for these animals, but the
administrators admit that íunding is a problem. To remedy (1 3 )______, they
have set up an adoption scheme (14)______which there is a íĩxed registration
fee. Donations have been averaging £25 and for this participants receive
certiíĩcation of their involvement in the scheme, an information pack about theừ
dolphin or whale, plus regular updates. In (15)______, there are plans afoot to
allow some volunteers to accompany scientists going out on observation trips.

40. CHOOSING A LIFESTYLE

Alternative liíestyles have existed in a variety of forms since the
beginning of organised society. (1) ______ have always been, and probably
always will be, people who feel a need to escape from the mainstream of
society and find a (2) ______ to live that conforms more closely (3) ______
their individual tastes and needs. The term “alternative lifestyle” (4 )______
is a by-product of the social revolution of the 1960s and 70s, (5) ___the
“Hippie movement” and (6) various back-to-nature and cultist
offshoots were in (7) __ prime, but the concept must be as old as
mankind itself. (8) __ seems evident that in every society there must
have been a (9 )______
___people who found themselves unable or unwilling to
accept the status quo, who felt compelled to seek a better - or at (1 0 )______
diíTerent - life out of reach of the restrictions and standards that any society
must impose (11) ______ its members. The monk in his monastery, the
hermit in his cave, the solitary “witch-woman” living (12)______ isolation in
the forest, must also have been seeking an alternative (13) ______ the
current standards of acceptability prevalent in their own societies. In our
times the punks, gang-members and followers of cult leaders are seeking, in
their (14) ______ ways, to fínd a life (15) ______ suited to their individual
needs, desires and dreams irrespective of the criticism they might draw.

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