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

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1. 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 won’t. 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. What's 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 insect's 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. What's 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 isn't a cat?
[答 案]A kitten.(小猫)

29. What surprising things happen every 24 hours?
[答 案]Day breaks, but doesn't fall; night falls, but doesn't 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, what's the first thing he did?
[答 案]He got wet first of all.

43. Who isn't your sister and isn't 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 can't sit down.

52. What did one invisible man say to the other invisible man?
[答 案]It's 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. What's 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 he's 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 I'm 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 don't you advertise for your lost dog?
[答 案]He can't 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 it's broken?
[答 案]An egg.

74. What's a skeleton?(骨架)
[答 案]It's 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 didn't 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. What's 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)