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三年联考题汇编 Passage 1 (湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测B篇) SHANGHAI, June 7（AP）—A 16-year-old girls suicide after she was barred from a key exam draw attention to increasing worries over academic pressures, as millions of Chinese students began annual college entrance tests on Wednesday. The three-day exam, viewed as important to future career and financial success, has a record 9.5 million high school students across China competing for just 2.6 million university places. For kids and parents alike, its a difficulty that experts say causes extreme emotional distress. Pressure from study and exams is a top reason for psychological problems among Chinese youth, said Jin Wuguan, director of the Youth Psychological Counseling Center at Shanghais Ruijin Hospital. In Chinas increasingly success oriented, pressure-cooker cities, academic stress is seen as a rising cause of youth suicides and even murders of parents by children who are driven crazy by intolerable pressure to perform. According to her family and newspaper accounts, 16-year-old Wu Wenwen drowned herself after she was stopped at the exam room door because her hair wasnt tied back as her school required. Returning in tied hair, she was then told the end-of-term exam had already started and she was too late to take it. In tears, Wu called her mother, and then disappeared. Her body was found the same night in a nearby lake. China doesnt keep comprehensive statistics on student suicides, but Jin said health care professionals see the problem worsening, even among elementary students. Most Chinese schools still lack advisers and teachers receive little training in spotting symptoms of emotional distress, Jin said. Parents are little help, often piling on pressure while ignoring their childrens emotional development, he said. Its a basic unwillingness or inability to recognize and deal with with emotional problems, Jin said. Wang Yufeng, of Peking Universitys Institute of Mental, estimates the rate of emotional disorders suc