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Mind work: English riddles大脑急转弯/英语谜语

作者:
sx
来源:
(2004年12月20日)
·英语园地·

 

Work hard on the following problems to see if you can answer them in new ways!

1. What is the difference between here and there?

2. What are the strongest days of the week?

3. Why did man put wheels on his rocking chair?

4. Why is the letter “R” like Christmas?

5. At what time of day was Adam born?

6. Why did the person throw a clock out the window?

7. What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?

8. What nail should you never hit with a hammer?

9. What ring is square?

10. Why is the sun like a loaf of bread?

11. What table is in the field?

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?

15. What changes a pear into a pearl?

16. What question can never be answered by “Yes”?

17. What ship has two mates but no captain?

18. What is the most difficult key to turn?

19. Where can you always find money?

20. What is the surest way to double your money?

21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

23. What letter makes a road broad?

24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

26. What match can’t be put in a matchbox?

27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

28. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?

29. I am something that has teeth but can’t eat. What am I?

30. What is a sick man a contradiction?


KEY:______________________________________________________________

1. The letter “t”.

2. Saturday and Sunday (all the other days are weak days)

3. Because he wanted to rock and roll

4. Because it comes at he end of December.

5. Just before Eve. (Eve 一语双关,“晚间”“夏娃”)

6. To see time fly.

7. A quarter to one (12:45; 一人分一个)

8. Your fingernail.

9. A boxing ring.(拳击场地)

10. Because it’s light when it rises. (light“亮的”“轻的”;rise“升起”“发虚”)

11. Vegetable

12. Silence

13. Mirror

14. Nothing

15. The letter “T”

16. Are you asleep?

17. Courtship

18. a donkey

19. In the dictionary

20. Fold it

21. In the dictionary

22. the bridge of nose

23. letter B

24. letter P

25. Because it is killed before it is cured(烘烤等处理)

26. Football match, basketball match, etc

27. When they make 22

28. A map

29. A comb

  30. When he is an impatient patient.


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