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精品文档，仅供学习与交流，如有侵权请联系网站删除Riddles (I)1.What is smaller than an insect's mouth?2.What season is the most dangerous one?3.What's too much for me,just right for two,but nothing at all for three?4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?5.How many feet are in a yard?6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?8.What has hands but no feet, a face but no eyes,tells but does not talk?9.How many months have 28 days?10.Which horses have six legs? Keys (I)1.Anything it eats.2.Autumn. Because it is also FALL.3.A secret.4.March fourth.When a war breaks out,they'll have to march forth.5.It depends on how many people are standing in it.6.A photographer.7.The number 8. 8.Take away the upper half and 0 is left.8.A clock.9.All of them.Each month has its 28th day.10.All horses have forelegs(four legs) in front and two in back, so they all have six legsRiddles (II)11.Why don't babies need glasses?12.What do you drop when you need it and take back when you don't?13.What's the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?14.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?16.What is the center of gravity?17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?18.When Columbus discovered America,where did he stand?19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?20.When the boy fell into the water,what's the first thing he did? Keys (II)11.Because they like bottles better.12.An anchor.(锚)13.A monkey can have fleas,but a flea can't have monkeys.14.A blackboard.15.Sixty. 16.The letter V.17.A doorbell.18.On his feet.19.A cat on a chair waiting for a mouse.20.He got wet first.Riddles (III)21.Who isn't your sister and isn't your brother,but is still  a child of your mother and father?22.What has teeth but can't eat?23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?24.Which candle burns longer:a black one or a white one?25.Why does a cook wear a high,white hat?26.Can you name five days of the  week  without  saying: Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday?27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps,a big mouth  but  never speaks?29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it.How can  you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?           Keys (III)来源:壹壹英语21.You yourself are.22.A comb.23.A farmer.He can  raise  pigs, chickens  and  so  on  without lifting them.24.Neither.Because all candles burn shorter.25.To cover his head.26.The day before yesterday,yesterday,today, tomorrow, and  the day after tomorrow.27.A hot dog.28.A river.29.Give three girls an apple each,and give the fourth girl  her apple in the basket.30.Envelope.           Riddles (IV)31.Three men were under one umbrella,but none of them  got  wet.How do they do it?32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?33.How much earth can you take from a hole 2 feet long, 2  feet wide and 2 feet deep?34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?35.What is pronounced like one letter,written with three letters,and belongs to all animals?来源：www.Y36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?38.What cannot be seen but only heard,and will not speak unless spoken to?39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?40.What part of a clock is always old?           Keys (IV)31.It was not raining.32.In a dictionary.33.None.Because it has been taken out already.34.A flag.35.Eye.36.Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.37.Trouble.38.An echo.(回声)39.Short.40.The second hand.Riddles (V)41.What person does every man take his hat off to?42.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?43.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?44.What appears once in every minute,twice in every  moment, but not once in thousand years?45.What would you say if you saw a ghost(鬼)?46.Which is the left side of a cake?47.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way street,but paid no attention to him.Why?48.Where should the milk be best stored ?49.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?50.What always has one eye open but can't see?           Keys (V)41.A barber.42.Water43.I C U44.The letter M.45.I would say nothing and run as fast as possible.46.The side that isn't eaten.47.The truck driver was walking there.48.In a cow.49.The ground.50.A needle.Riddles ( VI )51.What goes all over the house,but touches nothing?52.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?53.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?54.Why is a river rich?55.I have cities but no houses,forests but no trees; rivers but without water;what am I?56.A man jumped from a plane,but there was nothing  wrong  with him.Do you know why?57.In a train,a woman saw other peoples' faces were dirty. What would she do,do you know?58.Why did John say he didn't know where the sun was?59.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?60.Why does Tom's mother go to work by plane every day?           Keys ( VI )来源:壹壹英语51.A sound or voice.52.My name.53.The letter "C".54.Because it has two banks.55.A map.56.Because the plane is on the ground.57.She would close her eyes,of course.58.Because it was at night.59.In bed.60.Because she works in a plane.Riddles ( VII )61.What man can not live inside a house?62.What match can't be put in a match box?63.What is it,which will tomorrow and was be yesterday?64.What has many teeth but never uses them for eating?65.The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?66.What is that which has no leg but a body and a long neck?67.What part of London is in Brazil?68.What is that you ought to keep after you give it to somebody else?69.When is it correct to say "I is"?70.What is that which has a mouth,but never speaks, and  a  bed, but never sleeps in it?www.yeeyi.Net           Keys ( VII )61.A snowman.62.Football match,basketball match,and so on.63.Today.64.A comb.65.A hole.66.A bottle.67.The letter "L".68.A promise.69.When we say "I is a pron."70.A river.  Riddles ( VIII )71.What two things can't you have for breakfast?72.What do most gardeners not like to grow?73.If a band plays in a thunderstorm,who is most likely to  get hit by lightening?74.If you were to throw a white stone into  the  Red  Sea, what would it become?75.How many sweets can you put into an empty bag?76.How can you leave the room with two legs and return with six legs?77.How could you fall off a twenty-foot ladder and not get hurt?78.I unwrapped a lump of sugar and put  it  in  my  coffee. The sugar didn't get wet.Why?79.If it takes three and a half minutes to  boil  one  egg, how long does it take to boil four eggs?80.If three birds are sitting on a fence and you shoot and kill one of them,how many will be left?www.yeeyi.Net           Keys ( VIII )71.Lunch and supper.72.They don't like to grow their age.73.Conductors are.74.It remains a white stone.75.One sweet.Because a second sweet can't be put  into  an  empty pocket.76.Fetch a chair somewhere ,and you'll understand it.77.The ladder might be lying on the ground instead of against a wall.78.You have not had water yet.79.Three and a half minutes.80.One - the dead one.Riddles ( IX )81.When is your uncle's sister not your aunt?82.Mrs.Smith has nine children,half of them are girls. How  can this be true?83.Where  can you never tell the truth?84.What goes over the fields all day,and sits in  the  cupboard all night?85.What walks around all day and lies under the  bed  at  night with its tongue hanging out?86.How many cheese sandwiches can you eat on an empty stomach?87.When will a net hold water?88.Why is a room full of married couples empty?89.What table has no leg?90.What tables grow in the fields?           Keys ( IX )81.When she is my mother.82.The others are also girls.83.When you are lying anywhere.84.Our clothes.85.Our shoes.86.Only one.87.When the water is frozen.88.Because there is not a single man in the room.89. A timetable or vegetable.90.Vegetables.      Riddles ( X )91.Which American man has had the largest family?92.A hungry donkey was tied to a rope  eight  feet  long. About thirty feet away there was  a  basket  of  fresh  carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots.How did he reach them?93.What can you hold in your left hand,but not  in  your  right hand?94.I have seven letters.   The first two stand for a boy.   The first three stand for  a girl.   The first four stand for a brave boy.95.Why does a man's hair become grey before his moustaches?96.Why are people close  to  their  mothers  instead  of  their fathers?97.Where can you easily put your right hand,but can  never  put your left hand?98.What question can never get answer "YES."?99.What is the beginning of everything,also the end of life?100.Mary had a big dog,and I had a smaller one.One day,the  two dogs raced to see which ran faster.The dogs were soon tired out. Finally,my dog won the 10-mile race. Now  which  dog  had  more sweat on its body?：www.Y           Keys ( X )91.George Washington.He was Father of America.92.The donkey can eat those carrots easily. Because  the  other end of the rope was not tied to anything.93.You can hold your right hand in your left hand, but you  can not hold your right hand in your right hand.94.HEROINE.95.Because a man's moustaches come up after his hair.96.Because their father is always farther(father).97.You can easily put your right hand on your  left  elbow, but you never put your left hand there.98.Are you asleep?99.The letter "E".100.Neither dog had sweat on its body.Dogs never sweat.英语谜语小集1.Have you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down? 2.My thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My rain dries up all the land it touches. What am I?壹壹英语考试www.yeeY3.You can see it, but you can't touch it. It may disappear, but has never really left you. It grows throughout the day. What is it? 4.What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters? 5.I have holes on the top and bottom. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. I have holes on my left and on my rig. What am I? 6.A word I know, six letters it contains, Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. What is the word? 7.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? 8.What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in? 9.Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute? 10.What two words have the most letters in it? keys 1.your age 2.I'm a Volcano. 3.shadow 4.Eat or Ate 5.a sponge 6.dozens 7.a river 8.a keyboard 9.breath 10.post office英语智力谜语-1What do you call a girl who gambles？提示：Betty（贝蒂）是英语中常见的人名。把爱赌博（gamble）的女孩叫做Betty，因为bet的意思是“打赌”。www.yeeyi.NetWhat do you call a man who arrives in your letter box？提示：Bill（比尔）是 William（威廉）的爱称，名词 bill的意思是“账单”。What do you call a man with a car on his head？提示：Jack是英语中常用的人名，名词jack有“千斤顶”的意思，可以顶起汽车。所以，把“头顶上有汽车的人”（a man with a car on his head）戏称为JackWhat do you call a mouse if you put it in the freezer？提示：mouse（老鼠）的复数是 mice，mice又使人想起了 ice（冰）。所以把放在冰箱里的老鼠（a mouse you put in the freezer）戏称为 mice。www.yeeyi.NETWhat do you call a person who steal hamburgers？提示：hamburglar是一个杜撰词，由 hamburger+burglar拼缀而成的。What do you call a rich fish？提示：gold（金子）对应 rich（有钱的）。所以把有钱的鱼（a rich fish）戏称为goldfish（金鱼）。What do you call a thief in a shoe shop？提示：名词sneaker的意思是“鬼鬼祟祟的人”，把偷鞋的小偷叫做sneaker还有一层言外之意，因为sneaker的另一个意思是“旅行鞋”。壹壹英语(www.YeeYi.Net)What do you call a snake that works for the government？提示：serpent是“蛇”的意思。把在政府工作的蛇（a snake that works for the government）戏称为 civil serpent，这是模仿 civil servant（公职人员）而来的。What do you call a travelling flea？提示：由英语词hitch-hiker（免费搭车旅行的人）产生了这个谜语，旅行的虱子（travelling flea）被戏称为 itch-hiker，因为 itch的意思是“发痒”。What do you call a witch who goes to the beach but won't go in the water？提示：chicken（胆小的）对应 won't go in the water（不敢下水）。What do you call an overweight pumpkin？壹壹英语考试www.yeeY提示：不管南瓜（pumpkin）是不是超重（overweight），还是叫南瓜。If a neighbour's peacock laid an egg in your yard，whose egg would it be？提示：cock是“公鸡”，hen是“母鸡”；而peacock既泛指“孔雀”，又特指“雄孔雀”。peacock特指“雄孔雀”的时候，peahen是“雌孔雀”，只有雌孔雀才能下蛋！What can never be made right？提示：be made right有两个意思，一个是“纠正”，另一个是“变成右”。左耳（your left ear）当然变不成右耳。来源:壹壹英语What can you do if you can't sleep on an empty stomach？提示：sleep on an empty stomach的正常意义是“空着肚子睡觉”，谜面作“趴着睡觉”解的话，那么谜底就是“仰着睡觉”（sleep on your back）。What do you call musical insects？提示：hum是“哼哼”的意思，故而把有音乐细胞的昆虫（musical insects）称作humbugs。这里要说明一点，在英语里确实有humbug一词，意思是“欺骗”。How is an actor like a football player？提示：演员（actor）和足球运动员（football player）有何相像之处呢？英语的多义词play的两个意思“戏剧”和“踢球”是联系的纽带。壹壹英语论坛How does a vampire cross the ocean？提示：吸血鬼（vampire）怎样过海呢？ vessel是“船”的意思，吸血鬼总得跟“血”有关系，那就乘blood vessel吧，只不过blood vessel的意思是“血管”！What can you make but not use？提示：短语make a mess的意思是“弄得一团糟”。How long can a goose stand on one leg？ 提示：有谁见过大鹅“金鸡独立”（stand on one leg）吗？既然没见过，那么就试试看吧（try it and see）。How many feet are there in a yard？www.yeeyi.Net提示：feet既可以作“英尺”解，又可以作“脚”解；yard既可以作“码”解，又可以作“院子”解。谜底故意取了第二解。How many lions can you put in an empty cage？提示：跟上一个谜语的道理一样，在空的笼子里放进一只狮子以后，笼子就不是空的了。How much sand is there in a hole one metre long and one metre wide？ 提示：同样，“洞”（hole）里也不会有“砂子”（sand），有砂子的地方就不是洞。How was the lady's new air conditioner？来源：壹壹英语提示：leave somebody cold的字面意义是“使人感到冷”，比喻意义是“没有感觉”。空调机（air conditioner）能降温，出了毛病就不起作用，这位太太就“没有感觉”了。How would you divide thirteen apples evenly among twelve people？提示：把十三个苹果均匀地分给十二个人很难做到，除非是做成苹果酱（apple sauce）。How can you be sure to start a fire with two sticks？ 提示：要点火（start a fire）的话，用一根拨火棍（stick）就足够了，若要用第二根“棍”的话，肯定是火柴棍（match）。How can you light a candle with a box of candles and no matches？提示：谜面是“没有火柴怎样点燃一盒蜡烛？”谜底是“拿走一根蜡烛，就减少了一根蜡烛的分量。”似乎文不对题，其实，这里利用了light的歧义，light作为动词解是“点燃”的意思，作为形容词解是“轻”的意思。lighter还有“打火机”的意思。来源:壹壹英语How can you stop a sleepwalker from walking in his sleep？提示：不让人梦游（walk in his sleep）的简单办法是不让他睡着，这不是治病的办法，但是他醒着就确实不会梦游。How did the blotting paper manufacturer find his job？ 提示