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Teachers using red pens to mark students'work could be harming their psyche(心理)as the color is
too aggressive, according to education strategies drafted by an Australian state government.
The "Good Mental Health Rocks" kit, which was distributed this month to about 30 schools in
Queensland State, offers strategies such as "Don't mark in red pens(which can be seen as
aggressive)-use a different color."Other tips include structuring time for peer tutoring every day,
apologizing to students when necessary and asking students to conduct a "personal skill audit(审查)"
where they focus on their individual strengths rather than their weaknesses.
The kit, designed to help Queensland teachers address mental health problems in the classroom,
suggests social and emotional wellbeing has been linked to young people's schooling, among other things.
The education aid has sparked a row in parliament(议会), with deputy opposition leader Mark McArdle calling it "kooky, loony, loopy lefty policies."
But Health Minister Stephen Robertson, whose department devised the kit, said youth suicide was
a serious issue."If mental health professionals determine that as one of a number of strategies teachers
should consider, and then I'll support them every day, "he told reporters recently."This is not a matter
for ridicule; this is serious".
According to some Australian mental health groups, the greatest number of people with mental illness
is aged between 18 and 24 years, with 14 percent of Australian children and adolescents suffering from
some sort of illness.Boys are slightly more likely to experience mental health problems than girls and
depression is one of the most common conditions among young people and increases during
adolescence, the website of mental health group Mindframe said.
1. In this text the writer seems to suggest that ________.
A. teachers should not mark students' work in red pens
B. teachers should let peers to help their classmates every day
C. children should be encouraged to think of their strengths
D. teachers should not be so aggressive to their students
2. The "Good Mental Health Rocks" kit was designed for the purpose of ________.
A. developing the students' strengths instead of weaknesses
B. improving the students'health when they are at school
C. taking care of the students'mental health in the classroom
D. improving the teachers'teaching strategies in the classroom
3. From this text we can infer that ________.
A. a great many of people kill themselves every year
B. different people hold different opinions about the kit
C. students' mental health wasn't paid attention to before
D. red pens kill many young people every year at school
4. What's the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Most of the young people in Australia suffer from some kind of disease.
B. More and more people are suffering from depression in Australia.
C. Most children in Australia are in a poor state of health.
D. Adolescents are much easier to suffer from mental problems.
