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.
55.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
56.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
57.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