24.
(A) bearing
(B) peak
(C) danger
(D) recess

Americans 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 and other consequences of 23 before simply turning it all out and popping another potato chip.
美國人已經受夠了別人對他們腰圍的指指點點。對於日益發福的民眾來說，他們能忍受關於高血壓、心臟病以及肥胖其他後果的說教終究是有限的，聽多了便會充耳不聞，轉頭再抓一把洋芋片。
Now, there's one more reason to listen to the seeming scolds: the 24 of diabetes. According to a report published recently in the journal Diabetes Care, as a fat and happy U.S. gets fatter still, the incidence of dlabetes is rising too, 25 more and more people in younger and younger age groups--and threatening them with everything from blindness to amputations to heart attacks.
如今，人們多了一個理由去聽取這些看似嘮叨的忠告：那就是糖尿病的威脅。根據《糖尿病護理》期刊最近發表的一份報告，隨著肥胖且安逸的美國人變得越來越胖，糖尿病的發病率也在上升，越來越多的人在越來越年輕的年齡層中患病，並面臨從失明、截肢到心臟病發作等各種威脅。
While most such public-health threats require a bit of 26 sleuthing to determine the cause, 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 body steadily less responsive to sugar-processing insulin, causing the pancreas to 28 by producing become 29_.
雖然大多數這類公共衛生威脅都需要進行一些26調查才能找出原因，但這個問題卻顯而易見。在糖尿病患者人數攀升的同一時期，許多人的27也隨之增加。所有這些多餘的脂肪似乎使身體對處理糖分的胰島素反應日益遲鈍，導致胰臟28，通過分泌變得29_。
Doctors fix at least some of the blame for the growing problem on those other great phenomena 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-surfing
醫生將這個日益嚴重的問題，至少部分歸咎於1990年代的另外兩大現象：對網際網路的迷戀，以及有線電視頻道的30。這個日益連網的國家，也正變得越來越31，人們沉迷於上網

24.

(A) bearing  承擔 

(B) peak  高峰 

⭕️(C) danger  危險

(D) recess 衰退