1. (2023九上·哈尔滨开学考)  阅读短文, 用方框中所给的词的适当形式填空，使文章通顺、连贯、合理。（每空只能填一个单词或一个短语，每个单词或短语限用一次）

listen, in the beginning, use, express, pronounce, say, quick, excited

Last year, I did not like my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher spoke too  . And I was afraid to ask questions because of my poor  . So I just hid behind my textbook and never  anything. Do you know why I become good at English? 

That' s because I watched an English movie called Toy Story. 1 fell in love with this and funny movie after watching it! So I began to watch other English movies as well. Although I could not understand everything the characters said, their body language and the on their faces helped me to get the meaning. I also realized I could get the meaning by to the key words. I also learned sentences like "It' s a piece of cake. ^{, ,} or "It serves you right." I did not understand these sentences . But because I wanted to understand the story, I looked up the words in a dictionary.