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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’s enough to make most Westerners stomachs t____87____. But in other countries the same meal makes people’s mouths water. Eating bugs has been around for thousands of years in some countries . Today it’s 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 don’t realize that they may have done the same thing but just don’t know it! Many American people don’t 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resources 92. Nervous Vincent Van Gogh (文森特.梵高) was one of the most famous Dutch artists of the 19th century. O 92 the 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 v 93 cities in Europe. Van Gogh was not c 94 of 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. A