I was painfully shy as a child. In high school I would avoid participating in class discussions. I was too afraid to talk to anyone but my closest friends~ I would think about being less shy, wanting the courage not only to ask a girl out, but to speak up in class and say what I was thinking. Yet, it never happened. Fears showed themselves in such self-conscious questions as, " What will other people think? What if she says no?" I felt a dark presence in my mind holding me back.
This shyness continued into college. One day, the question occurred to me: Is life shy?
The thought surprised me ! Think of the leaves bursting out in the spring time, the bird singing at dawn, the sheer number of different forms of life, all expressing the wideness and scope of divine life. There's nothing shy about it. Life is everywhere and attention-grabbing (引人注意的). So, if my creator isn't shy about all the life that needs expressing, I don't need to be either.
I realized that if I wanted to overcome fear and shyness, I would have to put this law of life into practice~ Shyness, fear, and loneliness were hindering me from living my life as life: God wanted me to live it. Therefore, I decided to live how life saw me.
One example: I wrote a note to a girl, asking her out on a date. Even as I was writing it, the fears of disaffirmation and unworthiness came to me. This time however, instead of shrinking back and hiding from the fear, I put the note in the campus mail in spite of myself. I thought: whether she says yes or no, it's still right for me not to be shy. I can live with the confidence sent from the source of my life. The girl saw me in class the next day and told me that she would love to go out with me. I should not have been so surprised!
Bit by bit, I was proving that the limited view of myself no longer had control over me. After college, I worked as a newspaper reporter, earned an advanced degree in theater, became a productive writer (a lifelong dream), met a special woman whom I married, and even got a job teaching at a university.
1.The writer was shy as a child because of______.
A．awareness that life is shy
B．lack of courage to speak out in public
C．fear of others' attitude and reaction
D．failure in his participation in class discussion
2."The law" in Paragraph 4 refers to the fact that______.
A．life is attention-grabbing and divine
B．God treats everything and everyone fairly
C．everything in nature is in the favour of God
D．the creator of life which needs expressing isn't shy
3.It can be learnt from Paragraph 5 that the writer______.
A．didn't hesitate before sending the note
B．wouldn't regret sending the note despite the result
C．was not surprised when the girl agreed to go out
D．believed in God and felt encouraged by the wideness of life
4.The underlined word "disaffirmation" in Paragraph 5 probably means______.
A．rejection B．laughter C．regret D．horror
5.The purpose of writing the text is to______.
A．blame those who are shy and unconfident
B．persuade people to have confidence in their career
C．share the personal experience with the readers
D．prove that the overcome of shyness helps achieve success
Once, a king showed two men a large basket in the garden. He told them to fill it with water from 1. well. After they began their work, he left them, saying, “When the sun is down, I2._ (come) and see your work.”
Then 3.of them said, “What’s the use of doing this foolish work? We can never fill the basket.” The other man answered, “That is none4. our business.” The first man said.
“You may do as you like, but I am not going to work on such a foolish thing.” He threw away his bucket and went away. The other man said no word, and kept on5. (carry) water. At last the well was almost empty.
6. he poured the last bucket of water into the basket, he saw a bright thing in it. He picked it up. It was a7. (beauty) gold coin. Just then the king came. He told him to keep the coin8. himself. “You have done so9. (good) in this little thing, ” he said, “ 10. now I know I can trust you with many things.”
Many of the world’s pollution problems have been caused by the crowding of large groups of people into the cities. Supply for the needs of the people leads to further 1 by industry. If the rapid increase of world 2 continues at the present rate, there may be much greater 3 to human beings. Some scientists 4 of the increase in numbers of people as “population pollution（人口公害）”.
About 2, 000 years ago, the world population was about 250 million. It 5 a billion in 1850. By 1930 the population was two billion. It is now six billion. It is 6 to double by the year 2020. If the population 7 to grow at the same rate, there will be 25 billion people in the 8 a hundred years from now.
Man has been 9 the earth’s resources more and more 10 over the past years. Some of them are almost gone. Now many people believe that man’s 11 problem is how to control the 12 of the population. The material supplies in the world will be far from enough to 13 the human population if the present rate of increase continues. There is already over-crowding（过分拥挤）in many cities and 14 in some countries. Many people believe that human survival（生存） in the future 15 on the answer to the question.
1. A．progress B．pollution C．education D．production
2. A．agriculture B．industry C．environment D．population
3. A．danger B．harm C．benefit D．hardship
4. A．dream B．approve C．rid D．speak
5. A．got B．took C．brought D．reached
6. A．suggested B．hoped C．expected D．said
7. A．continues B．fails C．tries D．means
8. A．world B．country C．star D．end
9. A．discovering B．using C．digging D．destroying
10. A．seriously B．dangerously C．rapidly D．steadily
11. A．greatest B．easiest C．lightest D．simplest
12. A．existence B．start C．growth D．birth
13. A．increase B．decrease C．report D．support
14. A．discussion B．starvation C．construction D．argument
15. A．depends B．agrees C．saves D．passes
—How long is it ______ you picked up your badminton training?
—It was not until my finance became better last December _____ I started the training.
A．before; when B．until; that
C．that; when D．since; that
—Pity you missed the lecture on nuclear pollution.
—I _____it, but I was busy preparing for a job interview.
A．attended B．had attended
C．would attend D．would have attended
She was reading a book in her chair _____ first time I saw _____ old lady.
A．a; an B．the; the C．/; the D．/; an
