You’re standing with your classmates. Everyone is talking e   you. Perhaps you’re afraid they will laugh at you when you say. Maybe you just aren’t brave e   to speak. Shyness is like a snake that crawls（爬进）into our mouth and p  us from speaking. But we shouldn’t let it stay there.
I am 29 years old. Even today, that snake s   sometimes visits 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  to a local shop, it was as if I’d forgotten how to talk. One summer, I got a job 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   their meal cost. I had to ask them if they want to drink Coke or Sprite. This job taught me h   to speak with people.
You may be t   young to find a part-time job. But you can look for other chances to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman c her heavy bag. Or 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 . It’ll look for another mouth to crawl into.