第一部分 听力（略）
第二部分 阅读理解 (共两节，满分60分)
第一节(共15小题；每小题3分，满分45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
Do you think you are smart? If you are not sure, You Are Smarter Than You Think by an American teacher Thomas Armstrong will tell you: you are smart in some way.
To show this, Thomas tells the story of his life. When he was little, he did badly at school and was sent down a year. But later on, he found he was good at writing. He worked hard and became a writer and teacher.
