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Passage Two: Questions 23-31Americans are pretty fed up with being carped at about their waistlines. There are only so many lectures an increasingly plump public wants to hear about hypertension, heart disease andother consequences of 23 before simply turning it all out and popping another potato chip.Now, there’s one more reason to listen to the seeming scolds: the 24 of diabetes. Accordingto a report published recently in the journal Diabetes Care, as a fat and happy U.S. gets fatter still,the incidence of diabetes is rising too, 25 more and more people in younger and youngerage groups—and threatening them with everything from blindness to amputations to heart attacks.While most such public-health threats require a bit of 26 sleuthing to determine thecause, this one’s a no-brainer. In the same period in which the diabetes numbers have been climbing,so have the numbers on many people’s 27_. All the added fat appears to make the bodysteadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to 28 by producingmore and more of that essential hormone. Ultimately the body becomes so unresponsive that injected insulin supplements or other medication may become 29_.Doctors fix at least some of the blame for the growing problem on those other greatphenomena of the 1990s: the infatuation with the Internet and the 30 of cable-TV channels.An increasingly wired country is also becoming an increasingly 31 one, with Web-surfingkids leading the way. The answer, as always，is to shut down the computer, turn off the TV and try regular exercise and eating smart.
23.
(A) deficiency
(B) retrogression
(C) pressure
(D) obesity

參考答案

答案：D
難度：非常困難0.166667
統計：A(1),B(2),C(2),D(2),E(0)

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