Most of us lead unhealthy lives; we spend far too much sitting down. If in addition we are careless about our diets, our bodies soon become loose and fatty and our systems slow moving.

【小题1】I am thinking of such features of modern city life as pollution, noise, rushed meals and stress. But keeping fit is a way to reduce the effects of these evils. The usual suggestion to a person who is looking for a way to keep fit is to take up some sport or other. While it is true that every weekend you will find people playing football and hockey in the local park, they are outnumbered a hundred to one by the people who are simply watching them.

For those who do not particularly enjoy competitive sports—【小题2】—there are such separate activities as cycling, walking, jogging and swimming. What often happens though is that you do them in such a leisurely way, so slowly, that it is doubtful if you are doing yourself much good, except for the fact that you have at least managed to get up out of your armchair.

Even after you have found a way for keeping in shape, through sport or gymnastics,【小题3】, because, according to the experts, you must also master the art of complete mental and physical relaxation. 【小题4】Yoga, as practiced in the West, is the most widely known and popular of the systems for achieving the necessary state of relaxation. It seems ironical (讽刺性的), though, that as our lives have improved in a material sense we have found it increasingly necessary to go back to forms of activity—【小题5】—which were the natural way of life of our forefathers.

A．be active and practise Yoga

B．There are some aspects of our unhealthy lives that we cannot avoid.

C．and it is especially difficult to do so if you are not good at them

D．physical effort on the one hand and relaxation on the other

E．they spent most of the time out of doors

F．you are still only half way to good health

G．It has to do with deep breathing, emptying your mind of all thoughts, meditation, and so on.