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Stress is driving increasing numbers of teachers out of the profession, with some even considering suicide, a teaching union con

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问题     Stress is driving increasing numbers of teachers out of the profession, with some even considering suicide, a teaching union conference heard on Monday.
    Delegates at the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference in Harrogate heard there had been a "meteoric (迅速的)" rise in work-related stress due to demands to meet government targets.
Research by the Health and Safety Executive in 2000 found teaching to be the most stressful profession, with 41.5% of teachers reporting themselves as "highly stressed".
    Sue McMahon, a delegate from Calderdale, West Yorkshire, said: "As a divisional secretary, I have seen a meteoric rise in work-related stress and on more than one occasion have had to support a member who has attempted suicide.
    "This ... is due to the demands being placed on our members to hit government targets."
    She said a "target tsunami" from government is "sweeping away those [teachers] that you are struggling to support".
    The NUT is concerned that an increase in form-filling has driven up teachers’ workloads.
    The union passed two resolutions, calling for the union to support victims of work stress and for the Health and Safety Executive to intervene in schools where employers do not carry out assessments of the risk of stress.
    Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: "Despite measures to reduce teachers’ workload, we still have the unacceptable situation of many classroom teachers, heads and deputies working in excess of 50 hours a week. With no limit to the working week, the long hours continue to take their toll on teachers’ health and their lives outside work.
    "Much of this time is spent on tasks which have little to do with teaching and learning, but are instead generated by unnecessary bureaucratic procedures which have become the bane (祸根) of teachers’ lives."
    Reducing the burden of planning and assessment on teachers would help reduce the workload of school staff, Blower said. "In too many schools, planning and assessment requirements have become formulaic burdens which simply waste teachers’ time."
    John Illingworth from Nottingham told delegates the number of stress-related suicides among teachers is "low but significant". "Stress-related illness is widespread, affecting thousands of teachers each year. It is more likely to end a teacher’s career than any other cause," he said.
    Peter Harvey — the teacher who was given a community order after beating a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell — warned last year that "lots of teachers are ticking time bombs" because of stress in schools. In an interview, Harvey said: "I know teachers who, because of stress, can’t hold a cup of coffee or are too frightened to cross the road."
According to Sue McMahon, why are teachers increasingly anxious?
选项 A、They receive less support from the government.
B、Students are becoming more difficult to deal with.
C、The government makes great demands on teachers.
D、They find no way to escape the pressures of life.
答案C
解析 根据题干中的Sue McMahon将本题出处定位到第四、五段。第四段提到，Sue McMahon看到了工作压力的急速上升。第五段直接引用她的话，说这是因为他们必须要达到政府设置的目标。[C]是对文中的the demands being placed on our members to hit government targets的同义转述，故为答案。文中未提到政府帮助问题，故排除[A]。[B]是根据常识设的干扰项。文中谈到教师的压力过大，但没说他们无法逃避生活的压力，[D]是对文中信息的过度推测。
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