单选题 The swimming sky of oceanic expanse in Van Gogh"s The Starry Night; the human figure born of marble by the careful hands of Rodin; the graceful, ethereal figure of Degas"s ballerina; all communicate both emotion and essence in a world where aesthetic reigns supreme. Art has forever been humankind"s tool for expressing the ineffable, a form of communication when words fail or are wholly inadequate. Art challenges the artist by constructing a world in which opposing forces— impulse and control, emotion and thought, ideation and actuality—must cooperate to produce a piece of art. The artist must wrestle an almost untamable creative force for control in order to grant space to its expression. The process of facing and governing this force while conveying it to others makes artistic creation an especially valuable therapeutic tool for the emotionally disturbed. The process of creation and the created product are equally valuable parts of therapeutic art. Creating art requires balancing two aspects of personality that are, in the case of the emotionally disturbed person, especially irreconcilable. Like all artists, the emotionally disturbed person must learn to control and harness the dangerous, unpredictable forces of creation while remaining sufficiently unrestrictive to allow its expression. Balancing these forces in a constructive way while granting full play to both is an important ability to master, one that art therapy teaches particularly well. The emotionally disturbed artist"s goal is not the perfect expression of an aesthetic ideal. Yet communicating the mind"s content and having it recognized by others is intensely valuable to the disturbed artist"s healing. Taking ideas out of the isolation imposed by the mind and reproducing them in a form that can be shared and understood by others releases those ideas from the mind and removes from them some of their power. Using the brush where the pen and voice fail allows others, like the therapist, to recognize, understand, and begin to deconstruct the mind"s content. Artistic creation allows emotionally disturbed people to communicate ideas they are unable to express in words, and it provides therapists with an otherwise unobtainable window into the mind. Examination of their artistic pieces reveals an inner world that the self of the disturbed person cannot express another way. Art then becomes a new therapeutic medium through which to understand and address the complex issues that threaten and haunt the disturbed person, and in which to free them.
单选题 The primary purpose of the passage is to______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析：本文就艺术创作这一问题进行讨论。作者在第一段指出艺术可以表达人类语言难以表达的东西，艺术家在创作中需要把相对抗的力量变得和谐统一，作者在第一段最后一句总结说，艺术家在把艺术品展现给他人时赋予了艺术品一种治愈心理的作用，可见本文的主要目的是为了指出艺术品对心理失常的人有治愈作用，C正确。
单选题 In Line 5 , Paragraph 3 "the brush" is used primarily to signify______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析：由题干可直接定位至第三段。作者指出，艺术家的治愈过程是表达交流思想，将它从思想中分离然后以新形式被他人理解。作者认为，在文字和声音起不了作用的地方使用“刷子”可以使得其他人(比如治疗师)去认识、理解、解构思想的内容，可推断这里的“刷子”主要用来表示“艺术创作”，故选项D为答案。
单选题 The passage suggests that the main reason a therapist might use art to work with emotionally disturbed people is that art therapy can______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析：由题干中的“a therapist might use art to work with emotionally disturbed people”定位至第四段第一句。作者提到，艺术创作使心理失常的人表达出了他们无法用语言表达的想法，说明艺术品使他们可以通过非语言形式表达思想和情绪，A项符合文意。
单选题 The author suggests that artwork functions as "window"(Line 2, Paragraph 4)because artwork______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析：由题干直接定位至第四段。作者指出艺术创作为心理失常者提供表达思想的途径，像进入思想的一扇“窗户”，对艺术作品的审视展现了心理失常者的内在精神世界。“窗户”在这里表示探究心理失常者的内心思想的途径，只有D项与文意相符。
单选题 The author"s conclusion would be most directly supported by additional information proving that______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析：在文章结尾处作者总结道，艺术之所以成为一项新的治愈媒介，是因为通过它可以了解并找到那些威胁和困扰心理失常的人的复杂的问题，并能帮助他们自由地表达思想，这就证明了从事艺术工作的人能更好地控制自己的情绪，故选项B正确。