Question

Two 5-year-old girls, best friends, held hands in Tolson’s office at Van Ness Elementary School in Washington, D.C., one saying she didn’t feel well. Tolson, the school nurse, asked, “How long has your stomach been hurting?” “It just started,” she said.

The other one said her head hurt last night, too. Tolson knew she had a history of fevers, so she checked her temperature and asked her what she ate, whether she went to the bathroom, and whether her head still hurt. It could be that these two little girls that went to Tolson’s office were fine. Or maybe they had mental problems. And that is what school nurses have to judge every day.

School nurses generally get very little training when it comes to mental health. Mazyck said she herself was astounded when she was a school nurse. She saw upset, anxiety, sadness and students who didn’t even know what to do to calm themselves down. She never expected these. So Mazyck went back to school for a graduate degree in counseling (咨询) and now she focuses on getting nurses more training in mental health.

Sharon Stephan, who co-directs the National Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland, tells nurses there are two simple questions to ask themselves to see if a child needs help:

Is the student acting or behaving differently than he/she was before?

Is the student somehow far outside the norm (标准) of what you would expect?

The only time everyone pays attention is when there’s a tragedy(悲剧), like a school shooting. However, we actually can catch the students who might harm others and recognize the students who might want to kill themselves.

Mental health is ranked one of the top problems all school nurses deal with, and school nurses need to be better at it.

1.Why does the author mention the two little girls?

A. To show school nurses do a difficult job.

B. To show the importance of school nurses.

C. To show school nurses need much patience.

D. To show the importance of students’ health.

2.What does the underlined word “astounded” in the third paragraph mean?

A. Tired.    B. Troubled.

C. Shocked.    D. Embarrassed.

3.Why did Mazyck go back to school?

A. To give nurses more training in mental health.

B. To find school students with mental problems.

C. To learn what mental problems students may have.

D. To improve her skills of dealing with mental health.

4.What can we learn from the last but one paragraph?

A. There are too many kids in need of help.

B. Something tragic often happens at school.

C. Students’ mental health is always ignored.

D. It’s hard to find students with mental problems.

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.C

【解析】学生心理健康问题是所有的学校护士应对的最大问题之一，护士们需要更加擅长解决它，然而大部分学校护士很少受到专业培训，也很难做出正确的判断。但是Van Ness Elementary School在这方面有所改观，Mazyck通过重新回到大学重修了健康咨询学位，现在正致力于让护士们得到更多的心理健康方面的培训。

1.B推理判断题。作者在文章开头提到两个5岁的小女孩是为了引出本文的话题—关注儿童的心理健康，首先做出正确判断，才能真正解决问题。故选B。

2.C猜测词义题。根据第三段第三句话She saw upset, anxiety, sadness and students who didn’t even know what to do to calm themselves down.(她看到沮丧、焦虑、悲伤和那些甚至不知道该做些什么让自己平静下来的学生)，她做学校护士时的这些经历让她感到很震惊。故选C。

3.D细节理解题。由第三段内容得知，孩子们的沮丧、焦虑、悲伤和甚至不知道该做些什么让自己平静下来等等心理健康出现的许多问题（而毫无办法），是Mazyck不想要经历的，所以她去进修了咨询学位，进而让护士们得到更多的心理健康方面的培训。故选D。

4.C推理判断题。倒数第二段内容讲述了“每个人都关注的唯一时刻就是悲剧发生的那一刻，比如校园枪击案。然而，我们事实上可以能够在学生可能伤害到别人的时候及时地发现他，并且可以意识到他也可能会伤害到自己。”可知，学生的心理健康总是被忽略，故选C。