Bringing Art into Hospitals
The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.
As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s.He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(觀眾).
A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out—patient’s waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist. Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colours, playful images(形象)and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
小題1: Some best artists of Britain have been called in to__________.
A.set up new hospitals
B.make the corners of the hospital collect paintings
C.bring art into hospitals
D.help patients recover from serious illnesses
小題2:After the improvement of the hospital environment,__________.
A.patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains
B.patients don’t have to stay long in hospital
C.patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness
D.patients feel happy in hospital
小題3:It can inferred from the passage that__________.
A.the role of hospital environment is important.
B.hospital artists have done more than doctors
C.exhibitions attract more audience in hospitals than in museums
D.the hospital is a better place for people.

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:A

試題分析:
小題1:C 推理題。根據(jù)第二段As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings說明他們被召集是讓他們把藝術(shù)作品帶進(jìn)醫(yī)院。故C正確。
小題2:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)最后一段后三行A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.說明C正確。
小題3:A 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段1,2行The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness.說明醫(yī)院的環(huán)境在治療病人方面是有很大的作用的,故A正確。
點(diǎn)評(píng):文章介紹了英國的一項(xiàng)藝術(shù)作品進(jìn)醫(yī)院的活動(dòng)?疾榧(xì)節(jié)題為主,在解答這類問題時(shí)要求學(xué)生抓住題干文字信息,采用針對(duì)性方法進(jìn)行閱讀,因?yàn)檫@類題的答案在文章中可以直接找到。?
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