题目内容
16.What are pillows really stuffed with?Not physically,but symbolically?The question occurred to me with the photos in the news and social media from the 50cities around the world that staged public celebrations for International Pillow Fight Day.Armed with nothing more than bring-our-own sacrificial cushions,strangers struck heavily each other in playful feather from Amsterdam to Atlanta,Warsaw to Washington DC.But why?Is there anything more to this delightful celebration?As a cultural sign,the pillow is deceptively soft.Since at least the 16th Century,the humble pillow has been given unexpected meanings.The Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu who tells a famous story about a wise man who meets a depressed young scholar at an inn and offers him a magic pillow filled with the most vivid dreams of a seemingly more fulfilling life.When the young man awakens to discover that his happy 50-year dream has in fact come and gone in the short space of an afternoon's nap,our impression of the pillow's power shifts from wonder to terror.
Subsequent writers have likewise seized upon the pillow.When the 19th-Century English novelist Charlotte Bront? poetically observed"a ruffled(不平的) mind makes a restless pillow",she didn't just change the expected order of the adjectives and nouns,but instead she made it unclear the boundaries between mind and matter-the thing resting and the thing rested upon.
It's a trick perhaps Bront? learned from the Renaissance philosopher Montaigne,who once insisted that "ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head".On Montaigne's thinking,intelligence and happiness confront each other forever in a pillow fight that only one can win.
With the words of Tang,Bront?,and Montaigne,we can perhaps more easily measure the attraction of the global pillow fight.Like a ritual of release,the annual international pillow fight amounts to a kind of cleansing,a brushing off of daily worries:an emptying of the world's collective mind.Rather than a launch-pad for weightless rest,the pillow is a symbol of heavy thought:an anchor that drags the world's soul down-one that must be lightened.
56.The example of Tang Xianzu is used to illustrate thatD.
A.pillows gives people satisfactory dreams
B.dreams are always wonderful while the real world is cruel
C.people's impression of pillows changes from wonder to terror
D.pillows symbolically conveys the meaning in contrast to their soft appearance
57.Which of the following is TRUE about Charlotte Bront? according to the passage?B
A.She wrote poems about pillows.
B.She regarded pillows as reflections of our minds.
C.She shared same viewpoint with Tang Xianzu on pillows.
D.She was likely influenced by the thoughts of Renaissance.
58.The underlined phrase in the 4th paragraph"ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head"most probably meansB?
A.Pillows give us comforts.
B.Ignorant people can easily fall asleep.
C.Pillows make people more intelligent.
D.People can win happiness in the pillow fight.
59.According to the author,why is Pillow Fight Day so popular around the world?C
A.Because it is a ritual release.
B.Because it makes life delightful.
C.Because it comforts restless minds
D.Because it contains profound meaning of life.
分析 文章是一篇说明文.描述了一年一度的国际枕头大战等于一种净化,一种日常烦恼的洗刷:清空世界的集体思想.
解答 56.D 细节理解题.根据文章内容"When the young man awakens to discover that his happy 50-year dream has in fact come and gone in the short space of an afternoon's nap,our impression of the pillow's power shifts from wonder to terror."当年轻人醒来发现他快乐的50年的梦想实际上在一个午后小睡的短暂空间里来了又去时,我们对枕头的力量的印象从惊奇转为恐怖.故选D.
57.B 细节理解题.根据文章内容"On Montaigne's thinking,intelligence and happiness confront each other forever in a pillow fight that only one can win."在蒙田的思考中,智力和幸福永远在枕头战中互相对抗,只有一个人能赢,可知她认为枕头的反映我们的思想.结合选项故选B.
58.B 词义猜测题.根据文章内容""ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head""无知是最柔软的枕头,一个人可以在上面休息.故划线部分的含义指的是无知的人很容易入睡.与B选项更为接近.
59.C 细节理解题.根据文章内容"Like a ritual of release,the annual international pillow fight amounts to a kind of cleansing,a brushing off of daily worries:an emptying of the world's collective mind."就像一个释放的仪式,一年一度的国际枕头大战等于一种净化,一种日常烦恼的洗刷:清空世界的集体思想,可知它能抚慰焦躁不安的心灵故选C.
点评 做这类题材阅读理解时要求考生对文章通读一遍,做题时结合原文和题目有针对性的找出相关语句进行仔细分析,结合选项选出正确答案.推理判断题也是要在抓住关键句子的基础上合理的分析才能得出正确答案,切忌胡乱猜测,一定要做到有理有据.

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