初中英语-谜语教学拓展.doc

初中英语 谜语教学拓展初中英语 谜语教学拓展年级：姓名：81. What will you break once you say it? (什么东西一说出来就打破？)答案 Silence. (沉默)2. Will liars be honest after they die? (骗子死了之后会诚实吗？)答案 No, they wont. They lie still after they die。(不会，他们依旧撒谎。Lie still 躺着不动，依旧撒谎。)3. What always goes up and never goes down? (什么东西只升不降？)答案 Your age. (你的年龄)4. Why did the boy make his dog sit in the sun? (男孩为什么让他的狗坐在阳光下？)答案 He wants to have a hot dog. (他想要一条热狗。)5. Why can a bride hide nothing?(为什么新娘子什么也藏不住？)答案 Because someone will give her away. (因为有人会揭发她。Give away 揭发，在婚礼上把新娘交给新郎)6. Why is the library the highest building?(为什么图书馆是最高的建筑物？)答案 It has the most stories. (它的楼层最多。Story 故事，楼层)7. What is the smallest bridge in the world? (世界上最小的桥梁是什么？)答案 The bridge of a nose. (鼻梁)8. What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole? (北极与南极的区别是什么？)答案 A whole world. (整个世界。 a world of difference 天壤之别)9. What makes naughty boys long to work in a clock factory? (淘气的男孩为什么想去钟表厂工作？)答案 They want to make faces. (make face 做鬼脸，做钟表面)10. What bird lifts heavy things? (什么鸟能举起重物？)答案 Crane. (鹤。Crane鹤，举重机)11. A ship can contain only fifty persons. Now there is already forty-nine person in it. At this time, a pregnant woman comes on and boards the ship. The ship sinks. Why? (有一艘船只能容纳50人，现在已有49人。这时一位孕妇上了船，船就沉了。为什么？)答案 Because is a pigboat. (那是潜水艇。pigboat，潜水艇)12. Whats the poorest bank in the world? (世界的最贫穷的银行是什么？)答案 The river bank.(河岸)13. What month do soldiers hate?(军人憎恨什么月？) 答案 March (行军)14.What is higher without a head than with a head? 答案a pillow(枕头)15.What is dark but made by light? 答 案a shadow(影子) 16.What a room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors?答 案a mushroom(蘑菇) 17.What large instrument do you carry in your ears? 答 案drums(鼓) 18.What person tried to make you smile most of the time? 答案a photographer(摄影师)19.What has hands but no feet, a face but no eyes, tells but not talk? 答 案a clock(钟) 20.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty? 答 案a blackboard(黑板) 21.What has a soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speaks? 答 案a river(河) 22.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of? 答 案trouble(麻烦)23. What room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors? 答 案A mushroom.(蘑菇) 24. What is smaller than an insects mouth? 答 案Anything it eats. 25. What large instrument do you carry in your ears? 答 案Drums, that is eardrums.(鼓膜) 26. Whats too much for one, just right for two, but nothing at all for three? 答 案A secret. 27. What person tried to make you smile most of the time? 答 案A photographer. 28. What animal has a head like a cat, eyes like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isnt a cat? 答 案A kitten.(小猫) 29. What surprising things happen every 24 hours? 答 案Day breaks, but doesnt fall; night falls, but doesnt break. 30. What can hear you without ears and can answer you without a mouth? 答 案An echo.(回声) 31. What do you know about the kings of France? 答 案They are all dead. 32. What question can you never answer yes to 答 案Are you asleep? 33. Why do some old people never use glasses? 答 案They must prefer bottles to glasses. 34. Why is the person wearing two coats while painting the house? 答 案Because the instructions on the paint can say Put on two coats for best results. 35. What two words have thousands of letters in them? 答 案Post office. 36. What do workers do in a clock factory? 答 案They make faces all day. 37. What 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away? 答 案Sixty. 38. When do you go as fast as a racing car? 答 案When you are in it. 39. How many sides does a house have? 答 案Two - inside and outside. 40. What never asks any questions but always gets answers? 答 案A doorbell. 41. Where did Columbus stand when he discovered America? 答 案On his feet. 42. When the boy fell into the water, whats the first thing he did? 答 案He got wet first of all. 43. Who isnt your sister and isnt your brother, but is still a child of your mother and father? 答 案I myself. 44. What has teeth but cannot eat? 答 案A comb. 45. What kind of man can raise things without lifting them? 答 案A farmer. 46. Why does time fly? 答 案To get away from all the people who are trying to kill it. 47. Name five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 答 案The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. 48. What animal eats and drinks with its tail? 答 案All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating and drinking.49. What has a soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speaks? 答 案A river. 50. What kind of dog never bite? 答 案A hot dog. 51. Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor? 答 案Because it cant sit down. 52. What did one invisible man say to the other invisible man?答 案Its nice not to see you again. 53. What wears a cap but has no head? 答 案A bottle. 54. What rises in the morning and waves all day? 答 案A flag. 55.How can you tell clocks and watches are shy? 答 案Because they always have their hands in front of their faces. 56. What is wind? 答 案Air in a hurry. 57. What comes after the letter A? 答 案All the other letters. 58. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T? 答 案Teapot. 59. What word can you make shorter by adding to it? 答 案Short. 60. What person does every man take his hat off to? 答 案A barber. 61. Why does the boy carry a ladder to the school? 答 案Because he wants to go to high school. 62. What can you swallow that can also swallow you? 答 案Water. 63. Whats the difference between a hill and a pill? 答 案A hill is hard to get up and a pill is hard to get down. 64. Why is it useless to send a letter to Washington? 答 案Because hes dead. 65. A doctor and a lawyer loved the same girl. The lawyer went away for a week and gave the girl seven apples before he left. Why? 答 案Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away. 66. What will you do if a man-eating tiger is running after you? 答 案Nothing. Because Im a woman. 67. What always travels on foot? 答 案A shoe. 68. Where can happiness always be found? 答 案In the dictionary. 69. What is higher without a head than with a head? 答 案A pillow.(枕头) 70. Why dont you advertise for your lost dog?答 案He cant read. 71. On which side does a bird have the most feathers? 答 案The outside. 72. What is the best thing to keep in hot weather? 答 案Cool! 73. What is never used until its broken? 答 案An egg. 74. Whats a skeleton?(骨架) 答 案Its a lot of bones without the person on them! 75. What is dark but made by light? 答 案A shadow. 76. What can you break with only one word? 答 案Silence. 77. What stays indoors no matter how many times you put it out? 答 案The light. 78. A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didnt give him a ticket. Why? 答 案Because the truck driver was walking. 79. Where can milk be best stored? 答 案In a cow. 80. Which can move faster, heat or cold? 答 案Heat, because you can catch cold easily. 81. Whats the hardest thing about learning skating? 答 案The ice. 82. What has cities with no houses, rivers without water and forests without trees? 答 案A map. 83. What can be measured but has no length, width or thickness? 答 案The temperature. 84. What makes the Tower of Pisa lean? 答 案It never eats. 85. Why is writing called handwriting? 答 案If people wrote with their feet, we would have to call it footwriting. 86. If there were only three girls in the world, what do you think they would do? 答 案Two of them would get together and talk about the other one. 87. How many great men have been born in London? 答 案None. Only babies. 88. When can you have an empty pocket and still have something in it? 答 案When you have a hole in your pocket. 89. The greater it is, the less it can be seen. What is it? 答 案Darkness. 90. The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I? 答 案A hole. 91. Who may marry many a wife and stay single all of his life?答 案A priest.(牧师)