China news, Nanjing, Nov. 14 – “People who suffer from mental illness are able to draw. Actually, they can draw very well,” said Guo Haiping, a contemporary artist in Nanjing.

Recently, Guo spent three months living with the mentally retarded people at Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital (精神病醫(yī)院). When he was there, he taught them how to draw pictures. In three months, he collected more than 100 paintings drawn by the mentally retarded people, the Yangtze Evening News reported.

The paintings shocked the artistic circle. This has raised a question to the normal people in society: how can we give up our prejudices against the mentally retarded people and view them from a totally new perspective (看法)?

Before, the mentally retarded people in Nanjing had never touched painting brushes, nor did they know any painting techniques. Now, artists have begun to speak highly of their paintings. After seeing their works, Guo Haiping said this group of people and their works should “deserve more attention from society.”

“In China, no one believes that they can draw paintings. We have so many prejudices against this group of people and we really don’t know anything about their mysterious mental world,” Guo said.

At Nanjing Zu Tang Shan Psychiatric Hospital, Guo let the mentally retarded people see some paintings and gave them water color brushes, color pencils, oil chalk and clay. He told them they could do whatever they wanted with these materials. He didn’t teach them how to draw. He just encouraged them to pick up some of these materials and draw something. About 100 mentally retarded people in the hospital participated in the activity. During the three months’ stay in the hospital, Guo Haiping had seen them complete more than 300 works.

Guo Haiping also came to know about these mentally retarded people and their mental world through the event. He had collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book. Many works drawn by the patients will be exhibited in Beijing this month.

1. You can most probably read the text in ________.

A. a newspaper   B. a hospital guide   C. a science book   D. a medicine book

2. The underlined word “mentally retarded” means ______.

A. depressed         B. talented         C. cautious      D. slow-minded

3. Nobody in China believes the mentally retarded people can draw paintings because _______.

A. they think the mentally retarded people’s works are boring

B. the mentally retarded people really have no such special ability

C. they know little about the mentally retarded people’s mental world

D. the mentally retarded people’s works have never been collected by artists

4. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A. people will surely give up prejudices against the mentally retarded people

B. Guo Haiping collected all the patients’ paintings and made them into a book

C. people have begun to change their opinions about the mentally retarded people

D. as a mentally retarded artist, Guo Haiping hopes to be considered a normal person

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