4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（一个词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Have you ever felt stressed and anxious when your maths teacher asks you 1 question? Or when you are doing your maths homework? If so, you might have experienced 2 is called maths anxiety — the feeling of being extremely nervous when 3 (face) with doing basic mathematics. If you have experienced maths anxiety, you are not alone.
Mathematics 4 (be) a necessary skill that people use throughout their lives. 5 (fortunate), many people feel anxious when they have to do maths. That seed of fear may come from many sources. Cultural expectations may also be 6 (blame) — girls may be more likely to catch maths anxiety, perhaps because of stereotypes (刻板印象) that girls are naturally not very good at maths. Your genes, meanwhile, might lead you to anxiety more generally — 7 (make) you more likely to respond unwillingly to maths.
Whatever its origins, once the seed of the fear takes root, it may grow by 8 (it): the more anxious you feel, the worse you perform; the more you shy away from maths, the more you worry when you face it again. Adults with maths anxiety often have trouble 9 maths in their careers and everyday life. Adults with maths anxiety are 10 (little) likely to show interest, enter, and succeed in careers relating to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
