Passage 2 Directions: Listen to a short passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, listen for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks with the exact words you hear. When the passage is read for the third time, check what you have written. In recent years, doctors have focused on the growing rate of diabetes among children andyoung people. But the most common kind of diabetes, type II, is more (1) ________ as people growolder and gain more weight. Before you know it, there is more fat around the waist and hips thanyou remembered. The statistics are (2) ________ enough to make you want to stop eating immediately. The World Health Organization says by 2015, more than two billion adults will beoverweight and 700 million will (3) ________ obese. Being overweight or obese is anexpanding problem in many countries. Less physical activity and foods high in fat and sugar areconsidered as causes for this global (4) ________. Some researchers studied how body composition, the (5) ________ of lean tissue to fat, andincreased weight affected the risk of diabetes in more than 4,000 adults, aged 65 and older. At the beginning of the study, none of the participants had been (6) ________ with diabetes.Researchers assess the relationship between being overweight and the disease through (7) ________ their body mass index. According to researchers, even among adults over the age of 75, having a higher body massindex(8) ________ a considerably higher risk of diabetes. Men who were obese hada five and a half times higher risk of diabetes than those who were just overweight. For women,the risk was about three and a half times higher. As hard as it might be, making sure your weight stays at a healthy level is the only way to keep the risk of diabetes down. The results (9) ________ the importance of weight control during themiddle and later stages of life (10) ________ reducing diabetes risks. The study has sent awarning signal to those who don ’ t think that there is much connection between their waists andtheir health.