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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."
What suggestion did Christine Blower give in order to relieve teachers’ stress?
选项 A、Stop assessing teachers by test scores.
B、Cut the unnecessary official procedures.
C、Make the governmental targets achievable.
D、Provide psychological counseling.
答案B
解析 根据题干中的Christine Blower将本题出处定位到第九、十、十一段。其中第十段讲什么危害着教师的生活，即大量的时间消耗在不必要的官僚程序上(unnecessary bureaucratic procedures)。接着第十段首句提到，Blower认为，减少对教师的计划和评估的负担(Reducing the burden of．．．)，将会有助于减少教职员工的工作量(help reduce the workload)。综合两处信息可知，对教师的计划和评估就是不必要的官方程序，对其减少就可以减少教师的压力，故答案为[B]。[A]是根据常识设的干扰项。文中只是提到政府设定的目标使教师压力过大，但没说让政府的目标得以实现就可以减轻教师的压力，故排除[C]。[D]是针对文中提到的压力造成教师有心理问题设的干扰项。
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