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Are you nervous when you stand in front of the public? Are you afraid of making a speech?
Li Jun, a middle school boy, felt shy when he was making a speech the other day. 1 first, Li thought it quite easy because he had already practised at 2 (little) five times. "I was totally wrong. It was very different and much 3 (hard) than talking to my classmates during playtime," Li said. "I felt 4 (help) and wanted to leave the classroom quickly."
Li is not alone. Many middle school students now have the same problem: they can talk about their ideas freely with their best friends after class, 5 they can't speak in public. According to Zhou Hong, 6 teacher from a university, the main reason is that schools in China pay more attention to 7 (write) instead of speaking.
Zhou hopes schools can give students more chances to open their mouths, such as speech competitions, English corners and class discussions. He also offers some 8 (suggest) to students. "During your free time, you should practise more. When you're speaking in public, take it easy. Just imagine you're talking to nobody and speak up your ideas 9 (clear), which helps you to be at the 10 (high) of your powers," Zhou said. "That makes a fine public speech and you will be happy."
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Once, a father and his son went to a kite-flying festival. The son was very 1 (excite) to see all the colourful kites in the sky and asked his father to buy him one. 2 (make) him happy, the father went to a nearby shop and bought one.
The son started flying his kite 3 (happy). Soon it flew high up in the sky. After some time, the son thought to 4 (him), “It seems that the string(线) makes it hard for the kite to fly higher. If I cut it, the kite will be free to fly higher.” So he asked his father for a small knife and cut the string. 5 the string, the kite did go a little bit higher. However, it soon started to come down and landed on 6 tall tree. The son was sad. He wished that the kite could fly higher after he cut the string instead of 7 (fall) down. He turned to his father for an explanation.
“Well, the string wasn’t holding the kite down. In fact, it was helping it stay up when the wind was calm and guiding it in the right direction when the wind picked up,” the father explained. “When you cut the string just now, the kite 8 (lose) everything and fell down. Similarly, in life or at school, we may face a lot of limits(限制), like rules 9 hard tasks. Sometimes, it seems that they are holding us back, but they are actually guiding us in the right 10 (direct).”
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