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1.What is smaller than an insect’s mouth?
Anything it eats.
2.What’s too much for me, just right for two,but nothing at all for three?
A secret.
3.How many feet are in a yard?
It depends on how many people are standing in it.
注:yard①码(=3英尺);②院子(=courtyard)。
4.When does a doctor get angry?
When he loses his patients.
注:patients(病人)与patience(耐心)读音极易混淆。
5.What trees do fortune tellers look at ?
Palms.
注:fortune teller算命先生。palm①手掌;②棕榈树。
6.What surprising things happen every 24 hours?
Day breaks but doesn’t fall; night falls but doesn’t break.
注:break① 破碎;②破晓。fall ①掉下; ②降临。
7.What would you call a wooden King?
A ruler.
注:ruler①尺;②统治者。
8.What has hands but no feet, a face but no eyes, tells but does not talk?
A clock.
注:英语“报时”可以说tell the time,但不能说talk the time。
9.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea?
A monkey can have fleas, but a flea can’t have monkeys.
注:flea 蚤。
10.What bird can you use to lift heavy weights?
A crane.
注:crane ①鹤;②起重机。weight重量。
11.Which is the strongest creature in the world?
The snail. It carries its house on its back.
注:snail蜗牛。creatrue动物。
12.When do you go as fast as a car?
When you are in it.
13.How many sides does a house have?
Two — inside and outside.
14.Why do we call our language the mother tongue?
Because fathers seldom use it.
15.If you have a million dollars and give away one quarter, and another quarter and then another quarter, how much will you have left?
A million dollars minus 75 cents.
注:quarter①两角五分;②(百万美元的)四分之一。
16.What has teeth but cannot eat?
A comb.
17.Two teachers teach at the same school. One is the mother of the other’s son. What relation(关系) are they to each other?
Husband and wife.
18.Why does a cook wear a high, white hat?
To cover his head.
19.Which will burn longer: the candles on the birthday cake of a boy or the candle on the birthday cake of a girl?
Neither. No candles burn longer. They all burn shorter.
20.What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating or drinking.
21.Why did the girl put sugar under her pillow(枕头)?
She wanted sweet dreams.
22.What has soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speak?
A river.
注:bed 河床;mouth河口。
Anything it eats.
2.What’s too much for me, just right for two,but nothing at all for three?
A secret.
3.How many feet are in a yard?
It depends on how many people are standing in it.
注:yard①码(=3英尺);②院子(=courtyard)。
4.When does a doctor get angry?
When he loses his patients.
注:patients(病人)与patience(耐心)读音极易混淆。
5.What trees do fortune tellers look at ?
Palms.
注:fortune teller算命先生。palm①手掌;②棕榈树。
6.What surprising things happen every 24 hours?
Day breaks but doesn’t fall; night falls but doesn’t break.
注:break① 破碎;②破晓。fall ①掉下; ②降临。
7.What would you call a wooden King?
A ruler.
注:ruler①尺;②统治者。
8.What has hands but no feet, a face but no eyes, tells but does not talk?
A clock.
注:英语“报时”可以说tell the time,但不能说talk the time。
9.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea?
A monkey can have fleas, but a flea can’t have monkeys.
注:flea 蚤。
10.What bird can you use to lift heavy weights?
A crane.
注:crane ①鹤;②起重机。weight重量。
11.Which is the strongest creature in the world?
The snail. It carries its house on its back.
注:snail蜗牛。creatrue动物。
12.When do you go as fast as a car?
When you are in it.
13.How many sides does a house have?
Two — inside and outside.
14.Why do we call our language the mother tongue?
Because fathers seldom use it.
15.If you have a million dollars and give away one quarter, and another quarter and then another quarter, how much will you have left?
A million dollars minus 75 cents.
注:quarter①两角五分;②(百万美元的)四分之一。
16.What has teeth but cannot eat?
A comb.
17.Two teachers teach at the same school. One is the mother of the other’s son. What relation(关系) are they to each other?
Husband and wife.
18.Why does a cook wear a high, white hat?
To cover his head.
19.Which will burn longer: the candles on the birthday cake of a boy or the candle on the birthday cake of a girl?
Neither. No candles burn longer. They all burn shorter.
20.What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating or drinking.
21.Why did the girl put sugar under her pillow(枕头)?
She wanted sweet dreams.
22.What has soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speak?
A river.
注:bed 河床;mouth河口。