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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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