Question

You’re standing with your classmates. Everyone is talking e 1. you. Perhaps you’re afraid they will laugh at you when you say. Maybe you just aren’t brave e 2. to speak. Shyness is like a snake that crawls（爬进）into our mouth and p 3. us from speaking. But we shouldn’t let it stay there.

I am 29 years old. Even today, that snake s 4. sometimes visits me. When I was in high school, I was so shy that I wouldn’t talk to anyone except my parents and best friends. If a stranger asked me the w 5. to a local shop, it was as if I’d forgotten how to talk. One summer, I got a job in a restaurant and that helped a lot. It meant I had to talk to customers（顾客）. I had to tell them how m 6. their meal cost. I had to ask them if they want to drink Coke or Sprite. This job taught me h 7. to speak with people.

You may be t 8. young to find a part-time job. But you can look for other chances to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman c9. her heavy bag. Or you can go to get a newspaper for your family.

If you do these things for a while, the ‘shyness’ snake will soon begin to l10. . It’ll look for another mouth to crawl into.

 

Answer 1

1.except

2.enough

3.prevents

4.still

5.way

6.much

7.how

8.too

9.carry

10.leave

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文讲的是作者如何解决害羞这一问题，可以找一些事情来做，这样就有机会和别人说话，慢慢克服害羞这一问题。

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