2 . Paintings and sculptures can be a feast for the eyes of visitors to art museums, but today their viewing is also an unconventional treatment for people with mental illness.

Last month, a group of Canadian doctors started to write a new kind of prescription（处方）,which gives patients free access to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts（MMFA）. There, they will have a "relaxing, revitalizing experience" looking at the museum's collections, according to MMFA.

Nathalie Bondil, the museum's director general, believes that being in contact with culture and arts can help with wellbeing. "In the 21st century, culture will be what physical activity was for health in the 20th century," she said.

Each prescription will allow not only the patients but also their families or friends to go with them. In the museum, the visitor can appreciate the artworks, and take part in a wide range of activities including drawing, sewing（缝纫）and making a sculpture with recycled materials.

The new treatment is said to be the first of its kind in the world. But there's increasing evidence that the display of visual art, especially art depicting（描绘）nature, can have positive effects on people with depression, anxiety and self-esteem（自尊）problems.

In 2017, the UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing（APPGAHW）also released a report stating that "the time has come to recognise the powerful contribution the arts can make to our health and wellbeing".

Is it possible for art to improve overall health? We may not know the answer yet. But one thing is certain, more and more people today are persuaded by the idea that "art is good medicine".

1. What prescription did the group of Canadian doctors give to mental patients?

A．Get conventional treatment.

B．Relax by experiencing nature.

C．Join in some physical activities.

D．Appreciate paintings and sculptures.

2. What might Nathalie agree with?

A．Contacting culture and arts can make people rich.

B．Visiting art museums can help keep people healthy.

C．Culture will replace physical activities in the 21st century

D．Mental patients should go to museums with their families.

3. What do we know about the new treatment?

A．It can help with mental problems.

B．Nothing has proved it right so far.

C．It was used before by visual artists.

D．APPGAHW doubted its value.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Will MMFA be open to patients?

B．Is there a new treatment for artists?

C．Will fine arts improve mental health?

D．Is there a better medicine than art?

3 . Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with your eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.

With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world's 42 million, blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries possess most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.

ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world's only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation among countries.

ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 3,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plan programs in China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service to Shanxi Province. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.

For just US$38, you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training program for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.

1. The first paragraph is intended to ________.

A．direct the public's attention to the blind

B．advise the public to lead a simple life

C．introduce a new way of reading

D．encourage the public to use imagination

2. What do we learn about existing medical knowledge and skills in the world?

A．They are adequate.

B．They have not been updated.

C．They are not equally distributed.

D．They have benefited most of the blind.

3. ORBIS aims to help the blind by _______.

A．teaching medical students

B．training doctors and nurses

C．running flying hospitals globally

D．setting up non-profit organization

4. What can be the best title for the passage?

A．ORBIS Flying Hospital	B．Fighting Blindness
C．ORBIS in China	D．Sight-seeing Techniques

6 . Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) needs to prove its worth through rigorous clinical trials, according to the head of one of China’s largest herbal remedy companies, as a contentious new law to boost the $40bn sector comes into effect.

Traditional Chinese Medicine is estimated by analysts to account for a third of sales in China’s $117bn pharmaceutical (药学) market, the world’s second largest. But most of those sales are of relatively cheap over-the-counter drugs, with many Chinese hospital doctors unwilling to prescribe TCM remedies because of the lack of evidence for their effectiveness.

China’s first law promising equal status for TCM and western medicine in the country’s state-dominated healthcare system comes into effect this weekend. Provisions include encouragement for hospitals to set up TCM centres, and a licensing system for practitioners (从业者). “This law is very important for securing the status of TCM,” said Wu Yiling, chairman of Yiling Pharmaceutical, a company that makes herbal remedies based on traditional recipes in the northern province of Hebei.

Listed in Shenzhen, Wu Yiling has a market capitalization of RMB 20.7bn ($3bn). Mr Wu, the son of a herbal practitioner, controls a family fortune of $1.6bn, according to the Hurun Rich List.

Mr Wu is both a supporter of the nature of Qi—the mystical energy force that provides the basis for much of TCM theory—and the clinical trials vital to western pharmaceutical companies. “TCM needs to develop using modern research methods,” he said.

For instance, researchers from Peking and Cardiff Universities tested the health benefits of Yiling’s herbal medicine Yangzheng Xiaoji, publishing papers in the International Journal of Oncology that showed the drug can slow the growth of cancer tumours. “The theory and recipe is TCM, but in practice the evaluation of our medicines is carried out according to western evidence-based methods,” Mr Wu said.

Analysts say such tests can help gain support from doubtful hospital doctors and boost prescriptions. “Doctors need strong evidence that drugs definitely work,” said Serena Shao, healthcare analyst at brokerage CLSA. “Some of these companies are currently doing clinical trials, and getting proof that their drugs have the same efficacy (功效) as chemical drugs. That’s the way to go.” she added.

The TCM law has been greeted with doubt from China’s western-schooled medical establishment, which points to a lack of rigorous training for TCM doctors, and a recent series of shocking events involving herbal injections believed to have been harmful. “Officials will try and encourage TCM, but also will be very cautious about what kinds of TCM they use in hospitals,” added Ms Shao.

1. Why does Traditional Chinese Medicine need to prove its worth through rigorous clinical trials?

A．Because Chinese medicine is all cheap over-the-counter drugs

B．Because Chinese medicine market is the world’s second largest one.

C．Because Chinese government wants to boost the law of Chinese medicine.

D．Because doctors are unwilling to prescribe TCM remedies lacking evidence of effectiveness.

2. Which words can be used to replace the underlined word “Provisions” in the third paragraph?

A．Articles of law.	B．Ways of supplying.
C．Methods of motivation	D．Approaches to inspiring.

3. According to the passage, we can lean that Mr Wu Yiling ________.

A．is a herbal practitioner, controlling a family fortune

B．has a company in Shenzhen that has a market capitalization of $3bn

C．lets his company evaluate herbal medicines with western evidence-based methods

D．thinks that if we need to develop TCM, we should use Chinese traditional research methods

4. According to the last two paragraphs, we infer that ________.

A．western doctors deny the effectiveness of TCM

B．TCM hasn’t been recognized in the western medicine

C．there is a lack of rigorous training for TCM doctors

D．a recent series of shocking events has destroyed Chinese medicine