Alcohol

Question 1

Nondrinkers became isolated – not out of preference, but because British social life has been entirely organised around alcohol. Booze sat at the head of the table at dinner

Answer 1

Entirely

Question 2

Could the same trend be under way with our attitude to alcohol? Some experts believe so. It will be a huge shift, because drinking in the UK has a spirited history, stretching back thousands of years – jugs for fermenting alcohol go back to the stone age,

Answer 2

Attitude

Question 3

That period also sawa breakdown in the social taboos around women’s drinking that led toan explosion of alcohol being marketed to them. Witness a massive overall rise in consumption

Answer 3

Breakdown in the social taboos around women’s drinking

Question 4

Drinking is ingrained in our social life – much as cigarettes were until public health campaigns led to a huge cultural shift.
With many young people eschewing alcohol, the beginning of the end of booze Britain is in sight

Answer 4

Ingrained:عجین شدن نهادینه شدن
Boozeمشروب الکلی
The begining of the end of booze
Cultural shift

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Ingrainedbeliefs,behaviour,problems, etc haveexistedfor alongtimeand aredifficulttochange:

For most of us,watchingtelevisionis adeeplyingrainedhabit.

Question 5

Consider this: in 1974, half of British adults smoked; by 2017, thatfigure had fallen to just 16%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The decline was a result both of public health campaigns and legislation encouraging people to cut back or stop smoking

Answer 5

Public health campaigns
Legislation
Encouraging
Cut back or stop smoking