問題詳情：
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 (諮詢) 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 (標準) of what you would expect?
The only time everyone pays attention is when there’s a tragedy(悲劇), 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.
8. 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.
9. What does the underlined word “astounded” in the third paragraph mean?
A. Tired. B. Troubled.
C. Shocked. D. Embarrassed.
10. 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.
11. 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.
【回答】
BCDC
知識點：閲讀理解
題型：閲讀理解
國文精選館
