题目内容
____ is amazing that such a young girl can be so good at shooting.
A. What B. It C. This D. That
B
【解析】略
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(康复).
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(走廊), 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(展览) 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(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 a patient who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with(与……相比) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
1.Some best artists of Britain have been called in to_____
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A．set up new hospitals |
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B．make the corners of hospital collect paintings |
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C．bring art into hospitals |
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D．help patients recover from serious illness |
2.After the improvement of the hospital environment, _____
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A．patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains |
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B．patients don’t have to stay long in hospital |
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C．patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness |
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D．patients feel happy in hospital |
3.It can be inferred from the passage that_____
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A．the role of hospital environment is being recognized |
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B．hospital artists have done more than doctors |
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C．exhibitions attract more people in hospitals than in museums |
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D．the hospitals is a better place for people than the museum in Britain |
There seems never to have been a civilization without toys, but when and how they developed is unknown. They probably came about just to give children something to do.
In the ancient world, as is today, most boys played with some kinds of toys and most girls with another. In societies where social roles are strictly determined, boys pattern their play after the activities of their fathers and girls after the tasks of their mothers.This is true because boys and girls are being prepared, even in play, to step into the roles and responsibilities of the adult world.
What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same. The changes have been mostly in terms of skill, mechanics, and technology. It is the universality of toys with regard to their development in all parts of the world and their insistence to the present that is amazing. In Egypt, the US, China,Japan and among the Arctic peoples, generally the same kinds of toys appeared. Variations depended on local customs and ways of life because toys reflect their surroundings.Nearly every civilization had dolls, little weapons, toy soldiers, tiny animals and vehicles.
Because toys can be generally regarded as a kind of art form, they have not been affected by technological quick development that characterize inventions for adult use. The progress from the wheel to the ox-cart to the automobile is a direct line of ahievement. The progress from a rattle(拨浪鼓) used by a baby in 3000 BC to one used by a baby today, however, is not characterized by inventiveness. Each rattle is the product of the artistic tastes of times and subject to the limtations of available materials.
1.. The reason why the toys most boys play with are different from those that girls play with is that_________.
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A．their social roles are strictly determined |
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B．most boys would like to follow their fathers’ professions |
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C．boys like to play with their fathers while girls with their mothers |
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D．they like challenging activities |
2.. Which of the following is the author’s view on the historical development of toys？
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A．The making skills in toys has remained essentially unchanged. |
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B．Toys have remained basically the same all through the centuries. |
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C．The toy industry has witnessed great improvement in technology in recent years. |
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D．Toys are playing an increasingly important role in shaping a child’s character. |
3.. Regarded as a kind of art form, toys________.
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A．follow a direct line of achievement |
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B．also appeal greatly to adults |
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C．are not characterized by technological progress |
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D．reflect the pace of social progress |
4.. The author uses the example of a rattle to show that________.
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A．in toy-making there is a continuity in the use of materials |
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B．even the simplest toys can reflect the progress of technology |
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C．it often takes a long time to introduce new technology into toy-making |
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D．even a simple toy can mirror the artistic tastes of the time |