英文版的腦筋急轉彎
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1 Why should you never tell secrets in a cornfield?
2 Why do white sheep eat more than black ones?
3 Why is a ship one of the most polite things-on earth?
4 Why is it vulgar to sing and play by yourself?
5 Why can't it rain for two days continually?
6 Why is your nose in the middle of your face?
7 Why should fish be well educated?
8 Why is your sense of touch impaired when you are ill?
9 If you add a syllable to a certain word it becomes shorter.
What is the word?
10 If your uncle's sister is not your aunt, just what relation is she to you?
Answers:
1. Because corn has ears.
2. Because there are more of them in the world.
3. Because it always advances with a bow
4. Because such a performance is so low ***solo***.
5. Because there is always a night in between.
6. Because it is a scenter ***center***,
7. Because they are so often found in schools.
8. Because you don't feel well.
9. short
10. She is your mother.
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Riddles
1.What person does every man take his hat off to?
2.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?
3.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?
4.What appears once in every minute，twice in every? moment， but not once in thousand years?
5.What would you say if you saw a ghost***鬼***?
6.Which is the left side of a cake?
7.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way street，but paid no attention to him. Why ?
8.Where should the milk be best stored ?
9.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?
10.What always has one eye open but can’t see?
Keys
1.A barber.
2.Water.
3.I C U
4.The letter M.
5.I would say nothing and run as fast as possible.
6.The side that isn’t eaten.
7.The truck driver was walking there.
8.In a cow.
9.The ground.
10.A needle.
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Questions:
1.What has four legs but only one face
什麼東西有四條腿,卻只有一隻腳
2.What has many tails but no head
什麼東西有許多尾巴,卻沒有一個腦袋
3.What has three hands but only one face
什麼東西有三隻手,卻只有一張臉
4.What has its heart in its head
什麼東西的心在腦袋裡面
Keys:
1.A bed.
是床.
2.A book of stories.
是故事書.
3.A clock.
是時鐘.
4.A lettuce.
是生菜.
Notes:
1.the foot/head of a bed
床尾***床腳處***/床頭
2.tail音似tale***故事***
3.hand n.手;指標
4.ahead of lettuce一顆生菜
【精選】
1 [What do you call a witch who goes to the beach but won't go in the water?]
提示：chicken***膽小的***對應 won't go in the water***不敢下水***。
2 [What do you call an overweight pumpkin?]
提示：不管南瓜***pumpkin***是不是超重***overweight***，還是叫南瓜。
3 [If a neighbour's peacock laid an egg in your yard，whose egg would it be?]
提示：cock是“公雞”，hen是“母雞”;而peacock既泛指“孔雀”，又特指“雄孔雀”。peacock特指“雄孔雀”的時候，peahen是“雌孔雀”，只有雌孔雀才能下蛋!