【B】
          The planet needs China to curb its appetite for meat. In the first three decades of the “reformand opening” era the number of farmed animals in the country tripled. Raising them polluted watersupplies and ___26___ scarce arable land. Around the globe, China’s growing hunger for red meat,specifically, has seen ___27___ beef imports grow 40-fold between 2010 and 2018. The boomthreatens Latin American forests and Arctic ice caps alike, as cattle-rearing prompts land-clearingand emits greenhouse gases.
        To be fair, China’s 1.4 billion people are being asked to show a self-restraint unknown in thegluttonous West. Even now, in China where children yawn at dishes which their grandparents oncesaw only at weddings and high holidays, meat consumption per person is only half of America’s. ButChina’s government, too, wants its people to eat less meat. Obesity, type-2 diabetes and high bloodpressure are ___28___ . To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just40-75 grams of meat a day, or about half the current national average. Market signals are alsopushing shoppers to ___29___ . China’s most popular meat, pork, is nearly 70% costlier than a yearago because herds are being wiped out by African swine fever, a disease harmless to people but ___30___ to pigs.
【題組】26.
(A) make up for
(B) gobbled up
(C) do away with
(D) make do with