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Listening to music, watching movies, reading novels... Which kind of art is your go-to choice for fun? According to a new study, art not only calms your mind but also improves your physical health.
For the first time, scientists in the UK found that art helps the immune(免疫的), endocrine(内分泌的) and nervous systems all at once, said *The Guardian*. The study included 50 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 40. Half of them went to see real artworks at the Courtauld Gallery in London, while the other half looked at copies of the same paintings in a non-gallery setting. All of them wore health sensors throughout the experiment.
The result showed a 22 per cent drop in stress hormones(激素) for the gallery-goer and an 8 per cent drop for the other group, according to *Art Fund*. Signs of inflammation(炎症) also went down by about 30 per cent for the gallery group.
It's not just visual art that has such effects. For example, a 2021 Swiss study said that dance reduces stress by improving movement control.
What makes art so powerful? Scientists have different ideas. One, developed by Edward Vessel at the City College of New York, looks to our brain's default mode network(默认模式网络). This network is thought to play a key role in creativity—it usually stays quiet when we pay attention to things around us. But when we enjoy art, this network becomes active.
Although we are still learning how this works,
. According to *American Scientist*, art therapy was first developed to help traumatized(心理受创的) World War Ⅱ soldiers express their feelings. Those painful experiences often hurt the parts of their brains that control speech, so traditional talking therapy didn't work well. Since then, art therapy has helped over 650 million people around the world.
Marygrace Berberian, a professor at New York University, said in the university's news in September that number-based studies, like the new UK study, can help more people get art therapy.
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D
)6. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph?
A. To show how art reduces people's stress.
B. To prove that art is very important in life.
C. To list some popular art forms to readers.
D. To introduce how art can benefit people.
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D
)7. What does the result of the UK study show?
A. Young people benefit more from viewing art.
B. Looking at art copies is of little benefit to health.
C. Painting is the most helpful art for lowering stress.
D. Stress went down more for the gallery-goer group.
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B
)8. What does Edward Vessel's theory suggest about art?
A. It makes people's memory become better.
B. It makes the brain's special network active.
C. It makes the brain's usual activity weaker.
D. It makes people careless about the outside.
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A
)9.
新考法 句子回填 Which of the following is the most suitable for "
"?
A. art's power has long been used in treatment
B. art's power is still doubted by scientists
C. art's power has been fully understood by scientists
D. art's power hasn't been used in treatment till now
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B
)10. Which could be the best title of the passage?
A. Art therapy: a research of the brain
B. Beyond great fun: the power of art
C. Art and brain: searching for the relationship
D. Behind stress hormones: art therapy's role
