One part of the oath（誓言）taken by physicians requires us to "remember that there is art to medicine，and that warmth，sympathy and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug." When I，along with my medical school class，recited that oath at my white coat ceremony a year ago，I admit that I was more focused on the biomedical aspects than the "art".
   Actually，medical professionals can get too easily caught up in treating to remember there is still space for healing.As doctors learn to communicate with patients beyond the restricted language of physical indicators，drug protocols and surgical interventions that may go against healing，they are reaching for new tools — poetry.
   One clinical trial studied the effect of music or poetry on the pain，depression，and hope scores of 65 adult patients under cancer treatment.They found that both types of art therapy（療法）produced similar improvements in pain and depression scores.Only poetry，however，increased hope scores.Researchers assumed that poetry can break the so-called law of silence，according to which talking about one's perception of illness is taboo.After listening to poetry，one participant said， "I feel calmer when I hear those words.They show me that I'm not alone."
   Insights like these are already making their way into the clinic.Sarah Friebert runs a care center where children are visited by a writer who helps them create poems and stories for publication.Eric Elshtain uses poetry on the wards to teach children the power of self-expression.He's found that many of his patients write haikus about things like sports or their favorite stuffed animal，rather than their experience in a hospital bedPoetry，as he said，is a way to both accept the hospital encounter and escape from it.
   While a poem a day won't cure，it might help relieve.I've decided that I'll learn how to meet my patients beyond the chart documents；that Fil encourage them to write their own stories；that I will heal as well as treat.In other words，I'll honor each and every word in the oath I took last year.

（1）According to the text，the author is probably

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A．a(chǎn) young poet
B．a(chǎn) clinical expert
C．a(chǎn) medical student
D．a(chǎn)n experienced physician
（2）What insight can we gain from the clinical trial in paragraph 3？

B

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A．Music works better in reducing depression.
B．Poetry makes people open about their illness.
C．Patients are likely to lose hope without poems.
D．Art therapy is the key to cancer treatment.
（3）What can we infer about the author according to the last paragraph？

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A．He will change his career path.
B．He will well remember the oath.
C．He begins to take his work seriously.
D．He has better understood his job.
（4）Where is the text taken from？

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C

A．A news report.
B．A research paper.
C．A public speech.
D．An application letter.