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What does the author mainly want to say?
A. Your second-choice college may actually by your best fit.
B. You should consider comfort in your choice of schools.
C. You should try your best to attend your dream school.
D. Your choice of schools should be based on their fame.
B
People
often talk as if shyness is a disease or mental conditional that can be cured.
I prefer to think of it as an emotional disability. It’s something we are born
with and something we carry with us in our entire lives. There are too many
people, however, who seem to be determined to find some way of doing away with
their shyness. In my opinion, it’s a waste of time. I don’t mean that we should
do nothing about it; quite the contrary, I think we need to separate the basis
fact of our shyness from our ability to take part in a social environment.
Look
at one of the most famous shy people of them all, Johnny Carson. This man is
painfully shy, yet for decades he made a living talking and associating(交往)with different people every night, in front of a national
audience. Carson has never done away with his shyness, but he has successfully
found a way to deal with it to the extent that he could be, not just a talk
show host, but a legend(传奇)among talk show
hosts. Look also at Sally Fields, who has recently admitted her problem with
shyness. This is a woman who has appeared in many films, TV shows and
interviews, yet in her early years she was so shy that she turned down a lunch
invitation from Jane Fonda because she was terribly afraid of meeting her.
I
guess that our shyness is there because each of us is born with some insecurity(不安全感)and this insecurity prevents us from reaching out to
others the way people with a more open personality do. As we grow up and become
adults, we allow our social skills to grow and develop. But we are still stuck
in kindergarten or elementary school or wherever our shyness took root in our
soul.