One of the biggest complaints in modern society is being over-scheduled. Ask people how they are and the answer usually is “super busy,” “crazy busy”. _________ is just “fine” any more.

When people aren’t super busy at work, they are crazy busy exercising, entertaining or parenting. And if there is ever a still moment for thoughts--for example, while waiting _________ at the supermarket or sitting in traffic—out come the mobile phones. So it’s worth noting a study published last month in Science, which shows how _________ people will go to avoid the examination for our thoughts.

“We had noted that we are so dependent on our mobile phones that people seem to find any _________ they can to keep busy,” said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. In his experiments involving 700 people, the majority found it _________ to be alone with their thoughts for just 6 to 15 minutes.

It could be because human beings, as problem solvers and meaning makers, when _________, tend to think about what’s wrong in their lives. When we aren’t _________ our Facebook page, the things we haven’t figured out appear in our minds—_________ relationships, professional failures, health concerns, etc. Unless there is a solution, these thoughts just repeat themselves in our heads.

But you can’t solve problems _________ you don’t allow yourself time to think about them. It has actually been __________ by our culture, which values doing more than thinking and believes answers are in your hand __________ in your head. “We all feel that busyness is normal but it’s really harmful,” said Timothy. “There’s a widespread belief that thinking will only slow you down and get __________, but it’s the opposite.” __________ negative feelings only makes them more powerful, he said. Allowing and tolerating the flow of thoughts is part of the solution itself, such as meditation(冥想).

Negative feelings are sometimes hard, but they are part of everyone’s life, especially if you are busy. It is those deep and troubling feelings, and how you __________ them, that make you who you are. While busyness may seem to prevent the flow of sadness, it may also limit your ability to be filled with __________.

Everybody gets unhappy. That’s why people eat a lot of_______or spend lots of money on clothes — they think that these things will make them_______ ! _______, it is easy to get happiness, if you just have learned to be a_______.

Giving_______and resources to others who need them is a good thing to do. It will possibly contribute more to your happiness and to maintaining (保持) a_______attitude than anything else. The key to successful family_______is spending time staying with other family members. Give your time to your husband or wife, _______time and resources to your children, and_______they are the most valuable to you in the world.

Imagine this: a boy has_______, and you give him something of great_______to him, such as by reading him a book. There is no _______that you’ll see a big smile on his face. Maybe you’ll find that this is the happiest_______of your life. You can also volunteer for a rescue service. There you will learn the meaning of “I cried _______I had no shoes and then I saw a man who had no legs”.

Isn’t it true that the happiest people are typically those we consider foolish because they are _______ ready to give you the _______ off their back? It is also _______ that the most discontent (不满足的) people are the ones who are always making demands and never_______others. Form the _______of being a Big Giver, and then you will know one of the secrets to living a _______and happy life.

Man the Hunter, a key idea in human sciences, proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men conducted this activity, leaving women out. It holds that human ancestors had a division of ______, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are ______ superior to females and that pregnancy (怀孕) and child-caring reduce or eliminate (根除) a female’s ability to hunt.

Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and spread through popular ______. It is represented in museum displays and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it’s ______.

Researchers look at the damage on our ancestors’ remains for clues to their ______. Neandertal females and males do not vary in ______ patterns or exhibit sex differences in diseases from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same modes of wear and tear. This discovery implies that they were engaging in ______ activities, from hunting large game animals to processing fur for leather.

Observations of recent and contemporary societies provide direct evidence of women ______hunting. Agta people of the Philippines, ______, hunt while pregnant and breastfeeding, and they have the same hunting success as Agta men.

A recent study of cross-cultural observational data lasting the past 100 years—much of which was ______ by Man the Hunter contributors—found that women from a wide range of cultures hunt animals for food. 79 percent of the 63 societies with clear descriptions of their hunting strategies reportedly feature women ______. The women are involved in hunting regardless of their childbearing status.

Much about female exercise science and the ______ of prehistoric women remains to be discovered. But the idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not is absolutely ______ even by the limited evidence we have. Now when you think of “cave people”, we hope, you will imagine a(n) ______ group of hunters surrounding a deer or hitting stone tools together rather than a heavy-browed man with a heavy stick over one shoulder. Hunting may have been remade as a ______ activity in recent times, but for most of human history, it belonged to everyone.