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You’re standing with your classmates. E 1 is talking except you. Perhaps you’re afraid they will laugh at when you say. Maybe you just aren’t b 2 enough to speak.
Shyness is like a snake that crawls（爬进）into our mouth and s 3 us speaking. But we
shouldn’t let it stay there.
I am 29 years old. Even today, that snake still sometimes v 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 w 5 to a local shop, it was as if I’d forgotten how to talk. One summer, I got a j 6 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 7 their meal cost. I had to ask them if they want to drink Coke or Sprite.
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 c 8 to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman carry her heavy bag. O 9 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 l 10 you alone. It’ll look for another mouth to crawl into.