六级阅读

2011年12月份六级阅读完型练习题 Art is considered by many people to be little more than a decorative means of giving pleasure. This is not always the case, however; at times, art may be seen to have a purely functional side as well. Such could be said of the sandpaintings of the Navaho Indians of the American Southwest; these have a medicinal as well as an artistic purpose.    According to Navaho traditions, one who suffers from either a mental or a physical illness has in come way disturbed or come in conta