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众凯教育 021 众凯教育周周练 （十五 ） 一 ．Reading Office workers who would normally step into a pub or gym to cope withthe stress of a working day are being invited instead to sit infront of a painting. Manchester Art Gallery has recruited two of the countrys leading experts in stress management to choose pictures that are guaranteed to leave even the most frantic feeling at ease wich the world.They have created the tranquility tour which allows city-centre workers to spend their lunch hour taking a soothing tourof what are described as some of the most relaxing and inspiring paintings ever committed to canvas”. The free tour takes the visitor through several centuries of painting, from the Victorian aesthetic movement.through the PreRaphaelite school, to modern abstract an. Kim Gowland, a gallery executive. said Looking at art is a stress- relieving activity. What we are tryingto do is encourage people who work in the city to spend half an hour of their lunchbreak in the gallery. to chill out rather than rush around the shops. The five works chosen by Andrew Loukes. the gallerys manager, are John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s The Waters of Lethe (1880), Turners Thomson ’ s Aeolian Harp (1809), Sir John Everett Millais ’ s Autumn Leaves (1856), James Durden ’ s Summer in Cumberland (1925) and 1 众凯教育 021 Bridget Riley’s Zephyr (1976). Mr. Loukes said We chose five pictures that suggest restfulness. We also wamed to display the breadth of the collection. We arc particularly strong in early-19th and early-20th-century British art. Their therapeutic powers have been endorsed by Olga Gregson and Terry Looker from the Department of Biological Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr.Gregson said that research shows that stress levels have reduced and