B

Bringing Art into Hospitals.

The medical world is slowly realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to recover.

As part of a 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, modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have collections of art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements were first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970’s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by more people.

A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5000 visitors each week. What a good place to hold exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the 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 amazing. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitors experience a full view of fresh colors, playful images 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 a patient 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.

6. Some best artists of Britain have been called in to_____.

A. set up new hospitals      B. make the corners of hospital collect paintings

C. bring art into hospitals      D. help patients recover from serious illness

7. 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

8. It can be inferred from the passage that_____.

A. the role of hospital environment is being recognized

B. hospital artists have done more than doctors

C. exhibitions attract more people in hospitals than in museums

D. the hospitals is a better place for people than the museum in Britain

C

A person, like a commodity (商品), needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment (装饰), so that the person so packaged is not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.

A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self-defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle-aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self-confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self-satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth. There is no need to make us of hair dyeing. The snow-capped mountain itself is a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony (和谐) with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe (better quality) edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with.

As long as one find where on stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.

9. It can be concluded from the text that _______.

A. people should be packed at all ages     B. people should be packed in a special way

C. elderly people also care about packing     D. proper packing makes people attractive

10. For the middle-aged, attractiveness _______.

A. hardly exists                          B. is the strongest

C. comes from the inside                   D. comes from the appearance

11. The underlined sentence means that elderly people _______.

A. are usually packed like a finely-made book

B. experience a lot and have a rich knowledge of life

C. do a lot of traveling and can give you much information

D. enjoy reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairylands

五、句子翻译

1. 我们每个人都要受到学校的影响。

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2. 现在，除了星期天和星期六，学生每天都被限制在校园之内。

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3. 进入新校后，我们很快适应了这个新的变化。

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4. 每个人都喜欢她，因为大家认为她心肠很好。

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5. 随着污染的增加，一些动植物濒临灭绝。

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6. 情人眼里出西施。(in the eyes of)

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7. 美的标准随着时代及文化的不同而变化着。(change with)

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8. 受时代、社会和文化的影响，没有一定的衡量标准来判断什么是美。(with the influence of)

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9. 她演讲得太精彩了，欢呼声淹没了她的声音。(drown)

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10. 不像美国，中国人口众多。(unlike)

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二、词汇训练

1. breathless    2. consistent    3. slimming    4. overweight    5. conscience

6. manners     7. subjective    8. drawback    9. cute         10. initial

三、七选五

1.F 2.G 3.B 4.D 5.E

四、阅读理解

1-5 DDACB    6-8 CCA     9-11 DCB

五、句子翻译

1. Every one of us is influenced by the school.

2. Now the students are restricted to the schoolyard except on Sunday and Saturday.

3. After we came into the new school, we adapted to the change quickly.

4. Everybody likes her because she is considered warm – hearted.

5. With the pollution increasing, some animals and plants are dying out.

6. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

7. Standards of beauty change with time and cultural groups.

8. With the influence of history, society and culture, there are no precise criteria which can be used to judge what is beauty.

9. She delivered too wonderful a speech and cheers drowned her voice.

10. Unlike the USA, China has a large population.

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