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 50 cities 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 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 Bronte 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 unclear the boundaries between mind and matter—the thing resting and the thing rested upon.
It's a trick perhaps Bronte 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.Bronte，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.
（1）The example of Tang Xianzu is used to illustrate that DD.
A．pillows give 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 convey the meaning in contrast to their soft appearance
（2）From the passage，we can learn that Charlotte Bronte BB.
A．wrote poems about pillows
B．regarded pillows as reflections of our minds
C．shared the same viewpoint as Tang Xianzu on pillows
D．was likely to have been influenced by the thoughts of the Renaissance
（3）The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 "ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head" most probably means DD.
A．pillows give us comfort
B．pillows make people more intelligent
C．people with too many thoughts have less inner peace
D．people can easily fall asleep when they know nothing
（4）According to the author，why is Pillow Fight Day so popular around the world？ CC
A．Because it is a ritual release.
B．Because it makes life delightful.
C．Because it comforts restless minds.
D．Because it contains a profound meaning of life.
【答案】D；B；D；C
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