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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
A fateful conversation inspired the creation of the First Aid Kit, which was released in 1888. Aboard a train heading to Colorado for vacation, company
However, Kilmer knew that the kits, themselves, were not enough. They needed to include explanation and training. Since its founding, the company had prided itself on
4 . As a student at a medical school, Sam thinks poetry is a big part of his life, thanks to his new teacher, Rafael Campo, who believes poetry can benefit every doctor’s education and work. Rafael is a physician, professor and a highly respected poet.
“Poetry is in every encounter with my patients. If we do anything when we’re with our patients, we’re really immersed in their stories, really hearing their voices. And, certainly, that’s what a poem does,” he said.
Rafael worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education today: humanity, which he finds in poetry. To end that, he leads a weekly reading and writing workshop for medical students and residents. He thinks medical training focuses too much on distancing the doctor from his or her patients, and poems can help close that gap.
Third-year resident Andrea Schwartz was one of the workshop regulars. She said, “I think there’s no other profession other than medicine that produces as many writers as it does. And I think that is because there’s just so much power in doctors and patients interacting when patients are at their saddest moments.” Not everyone believes that’s what doctors should do, though.
Rafael said, “I was afraid of how people might judge me, actually. In the medical profession, as many people know, we must always put the emergency first. But, you know, that kind of treatment, if it’s happening in the hospital, very regrettably, sadly, results in a bad outcome. The family is sitting by the bedside. The patient hasn’t survived the cancer. Don’t we still have a role as healers there?”
In a poem titled “Health”, Rafael writes of the wish to live forever in a world made painless by our incurable joy. He says he will continue teaching students, helping patients and writing poems, his own brand of medicine.
1. What’s Rafael Campo?| A．He’s a doctor. |
| B．He’s a physicist. |
| C．He is a teacher in a senior school. |
| D．He is a student at a medical school. |
| A．Committed. | B．Forced. | C．Absorbed. | D．Persuaded. |
| A．It contributes to medical work. |
| B．It is mostly produced by doctors. |
| C．It has nothing to do with doctors. |
| D．It keeps doctors away from patients. |
| A．Gifted but overconfident. |
| B．Capable and responsible. |
| C．Honest and modest. |
| D．Cold but respected. |
| A．A good medicine tastes bitter |
| B．Poetry heals the pain |
| C．Sad poetry is a ready medicine |
| D．A poem a day keeps the doctor away |
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7 . Rolland and Adeline are proud parents to nine beautiful children. Their youngest two, daughter Lanto, and son, Rindra, were both born with cleft lip (唇裂) conditions. In Madagascar, many families have never seen a cleft lip before, so it’s a condition often greeted with fear and misfortune in some rural communities.
However, the news of Lanto and Rindra’s cleft lip wasn’t much of a shock for Rolland and Adeline because Rolland’s cousin — a man in his fifties — had lived his entire adult life with an untreated cleft lip. Although seeing a relative with a cleft lip meant the family weren’t fearful of the condition, they knew the negative impact an untreated cleft lip can have on aperson’s health and life. As any loving parents would, Rolland and Adeline wanted a better future for their children.
Rolland heard an advertisement on the radio about an Operation Smile surgical programme in Antsirabe, Madagascar. Finding out that Rindra and Lanto could have the cleft lip surgery they needed, for free, was a dream for the family. Unlike here in the UK, health services aren’t free in many parts of the world, and the costs of treatment — or even travelling to reach medical facilities — are out of reach for most families.
When Rolland and his children arrived at the patient village, they were surprised to see so many other families in the same position. After a thorough medical evaluation by medical volunteers, Lanto was found to be fit enough for surgery, and later got the new smile her parents had dreamed of for her. But, for younger brother Rindra, the journey to a new smile would take a little longer.
Operation Smile has provided hundreds of thousands of safe surgeries for children with cleft lip conditions worldwide. For more information about our work or to find out how you can help, visit www.operationsmile.org.
1. What do most people think of cleft lip in Madagascar?| A．It is incurable. | B．It is normal. | C．It is unlucky. | D．It is unavoidable. |
| A．Their children’s smile. | B．Their relative’s experience. |
| C．Their love for their parents. | D．The advertisement they saw. |
| A．Paying for surgery. | B．Staying in hospital. |
| C．Seeking for a doctor. | D．Having a health check. |
| A．For donations. | B．For copyright. | C．For commitment. | D．For clarification. |
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10 . Mental health is not something we normally connect with vaccination. Vaccines are designed to protect us from physical disease.
New research finds that even mild cases of COVID-19 are followed by obvious signs of anxiety and depression.
Another scary consequence of COVID-19 is more and more reported cases in which patients smell something disgusting that are not actually there. One woman reported that six months after her infection she still smells feces all the time.
But if avoiding problems above is not reason enough to get the vaccine, consider the second reason that full vaccination against COVID-19 is good for mental health. It makes people feel much more hopeful and safer.
Shirley from Illinois said “I was deeply worried about my parents before they got vaccines. Now that I knew they were better protected, I felt better.”
| A．She's not alone. |
| B．Not only her parents benefited from the vaccines. |
| C．It’ cut her off from one of the great joys of her life: cooking. |
| D．There were levels to the experience. |
| E．Those consequences occurred to people who used to be mentally healthy. |
| F．But getting vaccinated is also a way of saving our lives from the pandemic. |
| G．One reason for high rate of mental health problems is the failure in work and life. |
