Question

阅读短文，从方框中选择单词，并用其适当形式填空，使短文意思完整、通顺。每词限用一次。

You are standing with your classmates. 1. is talking except you. Perhaps you are 2. they will laugh at what you say. Maybe you just aren’t brave enough to speak.

Shyness is like a snake that crawls (爬) into our mouth and stops us 3. . But we shouldn’t let it stay there.

I am 29 years old. Even today, that snake still sometimes 4. 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 5. to a local shop, it was as if I’d forgotten how to talk. One summer, I 6. a job in a restaurant and that helped a lot. It meant I had to talk to customers. I had to tell them how much their meal cost. I had to ask them 7. they wanted to drink Coke or Sprite (雪碧). This job taught me how to speak with people.

You may be too young to find a part-time job. But you can look for other 8. to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman 9. 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 10. you alone. It’ ll look for another mouth to crawl into.

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