第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Parents’ meetings may be your worst nightmare (噩梦). However, that’s not always the case. The parents’ meeting we had after our mid-term examinations, for instance, couldn’t have been more surprising.
Sitting in our chairs next to our parents, we felt like we were on pins and needles, expecting a final outburst when they examined our grades and rankings. However, our teacher came to our rescue. He told our parents the stress we faced in our daily school lives and how hard we had worked for the college entrance examination. “No matter the score, they all studied very hard and each one of them has made progress. They deserve encouragement rather than blame,” he said. When they heard these words, many parents nodded, their anger gone. Well, to be honest, we hadn’t worked that hard before the meeting, but we decided we would try our best to live up to our teacher’s expectations after it.
