根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。在答题卡标有题号的横线上，完整写出空缺处所填单词的正确形式。（每空一词）

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.

缺词填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首

字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。注意：所填单词必须在答卷上完整写出。（本大题5分，每小题0.5分）

Dear Millie,

Thank you f 1. your e-mail. I now s 2. in London Moonlight Secondary School. It is not very big. There are about 500 s 3. at my school. I am in Grade 7, too. But we d 4. often say “Grade 7”, and we usually say “Year 7”.

We don’t go to the school assembly(校会) every morning. We have it twice a week. They are on Tuesday and F5. from 8:30 am. to 9:00 am. Classes usually b6.at 9:10 am. My f7. lesson is Computer Science.  I  w8.to be a teacher when I grow up(长大).  I love China. I e9.learning Chinese, too. I hope I can w10. to you in Chinese soon.

Please e-mail me soon!

Tommy