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