高中英语智力竞赛题选粹(含答案)
<1> If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?
<2> Who earns a living by driving his customers away?
<3> What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?
<4> Where do you find giant snails?
<5> What two things can't you have for breakfast?
ANSWER
<1> Wet
<2> Taxi driver
<3> An envelope
<4> On the ends of their fingers
<5> Lunch and breakfast
1.Why are girls afraid of the letter C ?
2.Why is the letter E so important?
3.Why are the letter G and letter S in "gloves" close to each other?
4.What letter is an animal ?
5.What letter is a question?
6.Why is U the jolliest letter?
7.How do you feel today?
8.How can you make a rope shorter without cutting or winding it?
9.Why do people wish for something they haven't got?
10.What can you tell from Peter's record card with extremely poor grades?
11.What does everybody do at the same time?
12.What resembles half a pie?
13.Who works only one day in a year but never gets fired?
14.When do people have two mouth?
15.Why do lions eat raw meat?
16.How many sides does a circle have?
17.What animal can jump as high as a 365
18.How can you be completely sleepless for seven days and still lack no rest?
19.Where was the Declaration of Independence signed?
20.If you throw a stone into the Red Sea,what will it become?
21.If two's company and three's crowd,what's four and five?
22.The farmers in this village used modern methods but harvested no apples
this year, why?
23.The injured dog had some difficulty going home.Every step he took, he
slipped back two.However,he still managed to get home. How did he do it? Ifyou throw
a stone into the Red Sea,what will it become?
24.What falls often but never gts hurt?
25.How did the pick-pocket spot the plain-clothes cop in his woman's disguise?
26.Which month has 28 days?
27.What is it that everyone wants to have and get rid of too?
28.where did the egg floating down the Mississippi River come from?
29.Lucky Mouse fell off a 1000-step stair and was not hurt.why?
30.Why do giraffes have long neck?
31.How can you make 6 out of three 7's?
32.How can you make 6 out of three 5's?
33.how can you make 1000 out of eight 8's?
34.Can you name the captital of every state in the U.S. in ten seconds?
35.A police officer had a brother ,but the brother had no brother.How could that be?
36.Why does a cat look first to one side and then to the other side when it enters a room?
37.How do you know policemen are strong ?
38.With which hand do you write?
39.What must you do before you return a book to the library?
Answers:
1.Because it makes fat fact!
2.Because it's the begining of everything!
3.Because there is love between them!
4. It's the letter B!
5. It's the letter 365
6. Because it's in the midst of fun!
7. With my hands ,of course!
8. Take a longer rope and compare with it!
9. What else is there to wish for? You cease to wish for it once you get it!
10. He didn't cheat!
11. Grow old!
12. The other half!
13. Santa Claus 圣诞老人
14. When there's two of them 有两个人时!
15. They don't know how to cook 他们不知道如何烹饪!
16. Two. The inside and the outside!
17. All animals,for trees can't jump!
18. Sleep at night!
19. At the bottom!
20. Wet!
21. Nine!
22. They planted peech trees!
23. He walked in the other direction!
24. Snowflakes!
25.He passed by a cosmetics store without looking in the window!
26. Every month has at least 28 days!
27. One's appetite!
28.From a hen!
29. He fell off the last step!
30. Because their heads are far from their bodies!
31.easy . 7- 7/7=6!
32. easy. 5+5/5=6!
33. easy. 8+8+8+8+88+888=1000!
can you feel it mp334.Washinton,D.C.!
35. The police officer was a lady!
36.Because it can't see both sides at once.
37.Because they can hold up traffic with just one hand!
38. Neither.I use a pen!
39.Borrow the book from library.
1) What month do soldiers hate?
2) How many feet are there in a yard?
3) Why is an empty purse always the same?
4) What book has the most stirring chapters?
5) What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
6) What is the smallest room in the world?
7) What kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
8) How do we know the ocean is friendly?
9) Which can move faster, heat or cold?
10) Why is the library the highest building?
Keys:
1)March (三月，行军)
2) It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码，院子)
3) There is no change in it. (零钱，变化)
4) A cook book. (动人的，搅拌的)
5) Hot dog. (热狗)
6) Mushroom. (蘑菇)
7) Drink well water. (井水，健康的)
8) It waves. (起波浪，招手致意)
9) Heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷，患感冒)
10) It has the most stories. (故事，（楼）层)
（1）—Who is closer to you，your mom or your dad ? (爸爸和妈妈谁和你更近？）
—Mom is closer because dad is father.
（2）—What fruit is never found singly ? (什么水果永远不会是单个的？）—A pear.
（3）—Why are young men unwilling to date the daughter of the Fortunes ?
(年轻人为什么不愿意和福琼家女儿约会？）
—Because she is Miss Fortune.
注: 以上脑筋急转弯泛采用了同音词（homonyms）:
（1）“father”（父亲）与“farther”（更远）
（2）“pear”（梨）音同“pair”（一对），
（3）“Miss Fortune”音同“misfortune”（不幸）
（4）Why is an empty matchbox the best thing to have in the world ?(为什么
空火柴盒是世界上最好的东西？）
—Because it is matchless.
（5）Why did little Tom put his brother's guitar in the refrigerator ?(小汤姆为
—Because he enjoyed cool music.
（6）What stays hot even if put it in a fridge?(什么东西即使放在冰箱里也热？）
—Pepper.
注: 以上脑筋急转弯大量运用了双关语（puns）：
（4）“matchless”既可理解为“没有火柴的”，又可理解为“举世无双的，无可匹敌的”；
（5）“cool”可表示“冷的、凉的”，也可指“棒、时髦、美妙的”；
（6）“hot”有两个意思："热"、"辣"。
（7）What kind of table has no legs?—A timetable.
（8）What month do soldiers hate？—March.
（9）Why is a peacock the best story teller?—Because it always has a beautif
ul tail.
（10）Which runs faster，heat or cold?—Heat，because you can catch a cold.
（11）Why does time fly? —Because many people are trying to kill it.
（12）What eight-letter word has only one letter in it? —Envelope.
（13）What word is pronounced wrong，even by the best of scholars? —The
word“wrong”.
（14）Where does harvest come before work?—In a dictionary.
（15）Why is the letter E so important?—Because it is the beginning of everyt hing.
再看一些和颜有关的：
英语中与颜有关的惯用语很多，意义并非从表面能理解，下面是一些常见例子，你先试着猜猜看：
(1) Having paid off all the debts, the company is now in the black.
(2) Some financial companies are in the red.
(3) The shop-keeper was beaten black and blue.
(4) He was the black sheep of the family.
(5)The authorities have given our department the green light to purchase the equipment required.
(6) When a foreign company comes to visit the country, the government often rolls out the red carpet for him.
(7) As Jenny did not want to go to Tom's party, she told him that she was busy. Such a white lie is better than hurting his feelings in other ways.
正确意义：
(1) In the black 盈利：
(2) In the red 亏损；负债
(3) Black and blue 青一块紫一块：
(4)The black sheep of the family败家子：
(5) Give ... greenl ight to ... 批准……做……：
(6) Roll out the red carpet 隆重欢迎：
(7) A white lie 善意的谎言：
附：
英语里把一些客人毫无礼貌，不跟主人打声招呼便悄然离去的作风称为French leave(法国式的离开)。
英国人把小孩子坐无坐相，周身乱动称为Jewish shake“犹太式的摇摆”。
It's Greek to me．含意是“这我不懂”，或“莫名其妙”。由于Greek是最难学的文字之一，故有此意。
American Beauty一词。从字面上看这个词语应解作“美国美女”，如果是这样解释的话，那便大错特错了。American Beauty是美国出产的一种四季都开花的红蔷薇，而不是指人类.
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