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It may be hard to believe that many people eat insects （昆虫）and bugs（虫子）. Insects are now very common in all of their processed food（加工食品）. Imagine sitting down at the dinner table and b_86_ served a bowl of worms(软体虫). Its enough to make most Westerners stomachs t_87_. But in other countries the same meal makes peoples mouths water. Eating bugs has been around for thousands of years in some countries . Today its estimated（估计）that more than half of the people of the world eat different kinds of bugs. Not only do these insects taste g_88_, but also they are a cheap and nutritious food source. In the US, some people eat bugs for quite a different reason to show their courage. In television shows l_89_ Survivor, contestants（参赛者）eat beetles（甲壳虫）and spiders(蜘蛛), and viewers watch the shows at home, feeling shocked and disgusted(恶心的). But many of the viewers dont realize that they may have done the same thing but just dont know it! Many American people dont p_90_ eat bugs, but in the future they may. There are fewer and fewer natural r_91_ and the population is getting larger and larger. Experts say that insects will be raised as an alternative（可供选择的）form of protein（蛋白质）. If more people did their part to eat bugs and broaden their diets and did not just go out and eat chicken, beef and pork, the planet would be better off (境况改善) today. Western children are not as n_92_ about bugs as their parents, because they often visit science museums and zoos, and at school they are learning more about the environment and bugs. 86. being 87. turn 88.good 89. like 90.purposely 91. resources 92. NervousVincent Van Gogh (文森特.梵高) was one of the most famous Dutch artists of the 19th century. O92the course(人生历程) of his 37 years, Van Gogh painted some of the most renowned（有名的 ）paintings of our time. At the age of sixteen, he began a career not as a painter but as an art salesman for the firm( 公司) Goupil & Cie. Van Gogh spent seven years with the firm, but became unhappy. In the following years, Van Gogh went from job to job, living in v93cities in Europe.Van Gogh was not c94of his own abilities, but through the encouragement and support of his beloved brother, Theo, he went to Brussels（布鲁塞尔） to begin studies in art. During the next ten years, he painted 872 paintings. Although Van Gogh is a world-famous artist today, he was 195known to the art world while he was alive. He sold only one painting during his lifetime but his fame (名声)grew rapidly in the years after his death.Later Van Gogh also s96from severe depression! （严重忧郁症） and was Admitted（准许进入） to an asylum! （精神病院）. While in the asylum Van Gogh painted one of his best-known paintingsStarry Night(昼夜). On July 27, 1890 Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest in a wheat field. Two days later he died with his younger brother, Theo, by his 97 Van Gogh produced more than 2.000 art works, consisting of around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches. His work was a strong influence on the modern art, and today many of his pieces, including his numerous（极多的 s 98 portraits (画像) , landscapes （风景画）and oil paintings, are among the worlds most recognizable and expensive works of art.92. Over 93. various 94. certain 95. little 96. suffered 97. side 98. selfA Bike Hire Plan Has Started in LondonLondon has become a cycle friendly area after the action of a new bike hire (租用)project. It has been desinged to 92 more people to cycle in and around central London. So how does it work? First you have to sign up to the project to get a key. The key will unlock one of the bikes, which are kept at parking stations in and around central London. You have to pay for the key and then you pay as you go, according to the 93 of time you use the bike. The organization, Transport for London, runs the project and 94 to have 6,000 bikes and 400 parking stations by the end of the year. The new hire system wants to ease congestion (缓解拥堵) in London and is expected to have up to 40,000 extra cycle trips a day into the city centre.London Mayor Boris Johnston started the project and said London used to be a 95 of thousands of shining cars and the project might change the outlook of their streets. However, a few problems have appeared 96 the project was started last Friday. Transport for London admitted they could expect a few small difficulties and allow cyclists not to pay for the first day as a bush. Some people found they couldnt park their bike 97 and nobody recorded their hire time of the bike on the first day. Others arent satisfied with the number of the parking stations for the bikes as well as the price it costs to hire the bicycles. Although the organization has received some complaints, the green-thinking London Mayor still seems very 98 about the Bike Hire Plan, saying, “My plan for the capital to become the greatest big cycling city in the world has taken a big step forward.”enable, length, hopes, full, since, everywhere, activeBe yourselfWe wish that we could be better at sports or more attractive. We wish we had nicer clothes or more money. Everyone likes to feel that lie or she is special._75_ , many of us grow up believing that were not special at all. We believe we are not good enough just as we are.Most parents want us to be the best we can be. Very often, they_76_us to others. By doing this, they try to encourage us to do better. They mean well, but the message we often get is that were not good enough. We begin to believe that the only way we can be special is by being better than someone else, but we are often_77_ .There will always be someone out there who is better than we are at something. Plenty of people around may not be as smart as we are, but they are better at sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is _78_ for us to be better than everyone else all the time.We all want the things that we believe will make us better people. But very often we dont realize that we already have_79_us the very things that we want. These things make us different from others. When we are growing up, _80_sometimes forget to tell us that we are special, that we are good enough. Maybe no one told them when they were growing up. Anyway, its up to us to remind them from time to time that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are is enough.75.A) AgainB) NextC) BesidesD) However76.A) describeB) compareC) introduceD) prefer77.A) lonelyB) forgetfulC) disappointedD) nervous78.A) helpfulB) impossibleC) necessaryD) unfair79A) insideB) amongC) aroundD) for80.A) friendsB) scientistsC) parentsD) doctorsA school newspaper The Teens asked over one thousand teenagers how they spent their spare time. Here they report the r 81 of the survey. Its not at all surprising to learn that most teens said they wanted more free time. Most have less than an hour a day for after-school activities.P 82 activity was popular among both girls and boys, averaging between three to six hours a week. Favourite sports among girls were tennis, basketball and swimming. Boys said they liked football, basketball and skating.Speaking of entertainment, music and TV were popular. About half of those surveyed said that music was their favourite activity. This i 83 both listening to and playing music. TV was also very popular. Three quarters said they preferred watching TV to reading a bo