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It’s always challenging to face fear. Here are some ways to help you overcome（克服）it.
Breathing
As we know, breathing can help us relax. If you purposely breathe out longer than you breathe in, your body will calm down. If you start to feel fearful, try this. Take a breath in (to a count of 7 in your mind), and then slowly breathe out (to a count of 11 in your mind). To your surprise, if you do this for a minute or so, you’ll calm down quickly. We call this "7/11 breathing".
Using a different part of your brain
When we feel fearful, it’s harder to think clearly. But if we force ourselves to use the part of thinking brain, this will help to calm us down. The easiest way to do this is with numbers. You can set your own fear from l to 10, 10 being the worst state and 1 being the most relaxed state. When you’re feeling fearful, ask yourself; “Okay, what grade do I get right now? 7 or 5?” Just doing this will reduce fear because it starts the thinking brain. Once I gave a speech to three hundred people and I felt fearful. So I graded myself at 6, and waited for myself to go down to 3 before starting. I took control.
Getting control of your imagination
Imagine seeing yourself in the situation you were scared, but see yourself being calm and things going well. Doing this starts to recondition your mind to more calmly face the coming events which were causing fear.
It seems that overcoming fear is always the first step to finish all you need to do and it will help you devote yourself to what you really want to be and to do. It takes efforts, but it’s worth your try.
| 59． to overcome fear | |||
| Introduction | It’s challenging to face fear in your life. | ||
| Ways | Breathing | To calm down, you can breathe out 60． than you breathe in. You’ll be 61． that you’ve calmed down very quickly if you take 7/11 breathing. | |
| Using a different part of your brain | You can set ten 62． for your own fear with numbers. Grading your state of mind helps 63． the thinking brain and make you 64． fearful. | ||
| Getting control of your imagination | Imagine you’re in a bad 65． but you feel calm and things go well. It can help you feel 66． to face the coming events. | ||
| Conclusion | To finish all you need to do, you must overcome fear 67． It’s worth 68． though it takes efforts. | ||
59．How
60．longer
61．surprised/amazed
62．levels
63．start
64．less
65．situation
66．calmer
67．first
68．trying
【解析】
【分析】
本文是一篇说明文。面对恐惧总是具有挑战性的，文章向我们介绍了克服恐惧的方法：呼吸法；使用大脑的不同部位；控制自己的想象力。
59．根据首段内容“Here are some ways to help you overcome（克服）it.”这里it指代上文中的fear，表示“接下来会给出一些克服恐惧的方法”，即“如何克服恐惧”how to overcome fear。故填How。
60．根据原文内容“If you purposely breathe out longer than you breathe in, your body will calm down.” 如果你故意呼气比吸气时间长，你的身体就会平静下来。可知为了冷静下来，你可以呼气比吸气时间长。空后由than这里要用副词的比较级。故填longer。
61．根据原文内容“To your surprise, if you do this for a minute or so, you’ll calm down quickly. We call this 7/11 breathing” 可知你会很惊奇，如果你做7/11呼吸法，你会很快冷静下来。主语是人，be动词之后加形容词作表语，surprised/amazed是同义词，都意为“惊奇的”。故填surprised/amazed。
62．根据原文“You can set your own fear from l to 10, 10 being the worst state and 1 being the most relaxed state.” 你可以设立你自己的恐惧从1到10，10是最坏的状态，1是最轻松的状态，可知，你可以为自己的恐惧设立10个等级，level是可数名词，意为“等级”，10后面加可数名词复数形式。故填levels。
63．根据原文“Just doing this will reduce fear because it starts the thinking brain.”可知评估大脑状态会帮助启动大脑思考，减少恐惧。help do sth.意为“帮助某人做某事”，help后可接动词原形作宾语，故填start。
64．根据原文“Just doing this will reduce fear because it starts the thinking brain.”做这个（评估自己的大脑状态）会减少恐惧，因为它启动大脑思考。“减少恐惧”也就是没有那么害怕。题干中fearful是形容词，其比较级可为less fearful。故填less。
65．根据“Imagine seeing yourself in the situation you were scared, but see yourself being calm and things going well.”可知，想象你自己处于一个糟糕的境况中，但是你自己很镇静，事情进展地不错。situation是名词，意为“情况，境况”。题干中空前面有a，用名词单数。故填situation。
66．根据原文“Doing this starts to recondition your mind to more calmly face the coming events which were causing fear.”可知当面临即将到来的导致恐惧的事情时，控制你的想象力可以帮助你感觉更镇静。题干中feel是系动词，后加形容词作表语。根据句意此空用到形容词比较级。故填calmer。
67．根据最后一段“It seems that overcoming fear is always the first step to finish all you need to do and it will help you devote yourself to what you really want to be and to do.”可知为了完成你所有需要做的，首先要克服恐惧。故填first。
68．根据最后一段“It takes efforts, but it’s worth your try.”可知克服恐惧值得尝试。be worth doing sth.意为“值得做某事”。故填trying。
