A．More men felt great stress and pressure than women.
B．The survey is conducted among high school students.
C．The percentage of students feeling overwhelmed is decreasing.
D．The survey is concerned with emotional health and stress.
参考答案D
解析:
For years the University of California, Los Angeles, has done a national survey of first-year coliege students．(23) Some of the questions in the Freshman Survey relate to emotional health and stress．Last year, 29 percent said they often felt "overwhelmed" by all they had to do in their last year of high school．That was two percentage points higher than the year before．There was a big difference between men and women．Almost 40 percent of women reported feeling that level of stress, compared to just 18 percent of men.
Experts say a lot of students are under too much pressure from parents and schools．(24) They are not enjoying what can be the incredible satisfaction of learning and developing understandings and skills．Learning can be an adventure．But instead of being an adventure, it's really about the test and the college application.
Deborah Stipek is the dean of the School of Education at Stanford University in California．She recently wrote about this issue in the journal Science．She used the example of her own daughter in high school．Her daughter has taken advancement placement courses in French to earn credit toward college．She told her mother she would be happy to never speak French again.
(25-1) Prof．Stipek thinks that revealed the real basic problem, which is the courses that her daughter was taking in French were not about learning French, not about being able to communicate with a different culture, or to travel, or to have a skill that could be useful in life．(25-2) It was about
getting a score on a test that would help her get into the college of her choice.
What does the speaker say about the survey?