请认真阅读下面短文,并根据各题所给首字母的提示,写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式,使短文通顺。
You're standing with your classmates. E____ is talking except you. Perhaps you're afraid they will laugh at when you say. Maybe you just aren't b____ enough to speak. Shyness is like a snake that crawls(爬进)into our mouth and s____ us speaking. But we shouldn't let it stay there.
I am 29 years old. Even today, that snake still sometimes v____ 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 j____ 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 how to speak with people. You may be too young to find a part-time job. But you can look for other c____ to speak with people. You can offer to help an old woman carry her heavy bag. O____ 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____ you alone. It'll look for another mouth to crawl into.