1、个人手工制作中学英语趣味任务连连做八十二中学英语趣味任务连连做(八十二)(任务一)英语知识趣谈-英语趣味问答1.Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized word: GRATUITOUS? voluntary ,arduous ,solicitous ,befitting 答案是befitting(恰当的),这是一道词汇题,我们知道gratuitous是无理由的意思,它的反义词是befitting-恰当的。2.What is the smallest of these? Rafwd - Anm - Ni
2、atg - Sreoh答案是Rafwd,这是一道很好玩的智力题,我们把字母重新安排一下可以得到Dwarf, man, giant, horse 这几个新词,它们依次是侏儒、人、巨人和马,当然是Dwarf(侏儒)最小了。3.What is the next number in the following sequence? 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 13 答案是21,序列中每一个数字都是前两个数字的和,最后的两个数是8和13,因此下一个数就是8与13的和。4.If n is an odd integer, which one of the following is an even
3、integer? n*n - n/4 - 2n + 3 - n(n + 3)答案是n(n + 3),n是一个奇数,(n + 3)就是一个偶数,它们的乘积一定是一个偶数。(任务二)英语趣味知识-英语知识竞答思维训练. 1.What has teeth but cant eat? A comb. (梳子)2. Can 11 and 2 make 1 ?AA. eleven oclock plus two hours is one oclock. B No, I dont think so.C No, they can make 13. D.11+2=13.What kind of man can
4、raise things without lifting them? A farmer. He can raise pigs, chickens and so on without lifting them.4.Which candle burns longer: a black one or a white one?Neither. Because all candles burn shorter.45.Why does a cook wear a high, white hat? To cover his head.5. Can you name five days of the week
5、 without saying “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday”?The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.(任务三)英语趣味句子1、A man can succeed at almost anything for whichhe has unlimited enthusiasm.无论何事,只要对它有无限的热情你就能取得成功。C. M. Schwab(美国实业家施瓦布)2、The man who has made up hi
6、s mind to win will never say “impossible”.凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。Bonapart Napoleon(法国皇帝拿破仑)3、Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.进步是今天的活动,明天的保证。Emerson(美国思想家爱默生)4、Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,but the chalice of opportunity.命运给予我们的不是失望之酒,而是机会之杯。Richard Nixon(美国
7、总统尼克松)5、A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.只要有一个人还有所追求,他就没有老。直到后悔取代了梦想,一个人才算老。J. Barrymore(巴里穆尔)(任务四)英语精美故事连连读刺猬汉斯的故事Once upon a time there was a peasant who had money and land enough, but as rich as he was, there was still som
8、ething missing from his happiness: He had no children with his wife. Often when he went to the city with the other peasants, they would mock him and ask him why he had no children. He finally became angry, and when he returned home, he said, I will have a child, even if it is a hedgehog.Then his wif
9、e had a baby, and the top half was a hedgehog and the bottom half a boy. When she saw the baby, she was horrified and said, Now see what you have wished upon us!The man said, It cannot be helped. The boy must be baptized, but we cannot ask anyone to be his godfather.The woman said, And the only name
10、 that we can give him is Hans-My-Hedgehog.When he was baptized, the pastor said, Because of his quills he cannot be given an ordinary bed. So they put a little straw behind the stove and laid him in it. And he could not drink from his mother, for he would have stuck her with his quills. He lay there
11、 behind the stove for eight years, and his father grew tired of him, and thought, if only he would die. But he did not die, but just lay there.Now it happened that there was a fair in the city, and the peasant wanted to go. He asked his wife what he should bring her.A little meat, some bread rolls,
12、and things for the household, she said. Then he asked the servant girl, and she wanted a pair of slippers and some fancy stockings.Finally, he also said, Hans-My-Hedgehog, what would you like?Father, he said, bring me some bagpipes.When the peasant returned home he gave his wife what he had brought
13、for her, meat and bread rolls. Then he gave the servant girl the slippers and fancy stockings. And finally he went behind the stove and gave Hans-My-Hedgehog the bagpipes.When Hans-My-Hedgehog had them, he said, Father, go to the blacksmiths and have my cock-rooster shod, then I will ride away and n
14、ever again come back. The father was happy to get rid of him, so he had his rooster shod, and when it was done, Hans-My-Hedgehog climbed on it and rode away. He took pigs and donkeys with him, to tend in the forest.In the forest the rooster flew into a tall tree with him. There he sat and watched ov
15、er the donkeys and the pigs. He sat there for years, until finally the herd had grown large. His father knew nothing about him. While sitting in the tree, he played his bagpipes and made beautiful music.One day a king came by. He was lost and heard the music. He was amazed to hear it, and sent a ser
16、vant to look around and see where it was coming from. He looked here and there but only saw a little animal sitting high in a tree. It looked like a rooster up there with a hedgehog sitting on it making the music.The king said to the servant that he should ask him why he was sitting there, and if he
17、 knew the way back to his kingdom. Then Hans-My-Hedgehog climbed down from the tree and told him that he would show him the way if the king would promise in writing to give him the first thing that greeted him at the royal court upon his arrival home.The king thought, I can do that easily enough. Ha
18、ns-My-Hedgehog cannot understand writing, and I can put down what I want to.Then the king took pen and ink and wrote something, and after he had done so, Hans-My-Hedgehog showed him the way, and he arrived safely at home. His daughter saw him coming from afar, and was so overjoyed that she ran to me
19、et him and kissed him. He thought about Hans-My-Hedgehog and told her what had happened, that he was supposed to have promised the first thing that greeted him to a strange animal that rode a rooster and made beautiful music. But instead he had written that this would not happen, for Hans-My-Hedgeho
20、g could not read. The princess was happy about this, and said that it was a good thing, for she would not have gone with him in any event.Hans-My-Hedgehog tended the donkeys and pigs, was of good cheer, and sat in the tree blowing on his bagpipes.Now it happened that another king came this way with
21、his servants and messengers. He too got lost and did not know the way back home because the forest was so large. He too heard the beautiful music from afar, and asked one of his messengers to go and see what it was and where it was coming from. The messenger ran to the tree where he saw Hans-My-Hedg
22、ehog astride the cock-rooster. The messenger asked him what he was doing up there.I am tending my donkeys and pigs. What is it that you want?replied Hans-My-Hedgehog.The messenger said that they were lost and could not find their way back to their kingdom, and asked him if he could not show them the
23、 way.Then Hans-My-Hedgehog climbed down from the tree with his rooster and told the old king that he would show him the way if he would give him the thing that he first met at home before the royal castle. The king said yes and signed a promise to Hans-My-Hedgehog.When that was done, Hans-My-Hedgeho
24、g rode ahead on his rooster showing them the way, and the king safely reached his kingdom. When the king arrived at his court there was great joy. Now he had an only daughter who was very beautiful. She ran out to him, threw her arms around his neck and kissed him, and was ever so happy that her old
25、 father had returned.She asked him where he had been during his long absence, and he told her how he had lost his way and almost not made it home again, but that as he was making his way through a great forest he had come upon a half hedgehog, half human astride a rooster sitting in a tall tree and
26、making beautiful music who had shown him the way, but whom he had promised whatever first met him at the royal court, and it was she herself, and he was terribly sorry.But she promised that she would go with him when he came, for the love of her old father.Hans-My-Hedgehog tended his pigs, and the p
27、igs had more pigs, until there were so many that the whole forest was full. Then Hans-My-Hedgehog let his father know that they should empty out all the stalls in the village, because he was coming with such a large herd of pigs that everyone who wanted to would be able to take part in the slaughter
28、.It saddened the father to hear this, for he thought that Hans-My-Hedgehog had long since died. But Hans-My-Hedgehog mounted his cock-rooster, drove the pigs ahead of himself into the village, and had them butchered. What a slaughter! What a commotion! They could hear the noise two hours away!Afterw
29、ard Hans-My-Hedgehog said, Father, have my cock-rooster shod a second time at the blacksmiths. Then I will ride away and not come back again as long as I live. So the father had the cock-rooster shod, and was happy that Hans-My-Hedgehog was not coming back.Hans-My-Hedgehog rode into the first kingdo
30、m. The king had ordered that if anyone should approach who was carrying bagpipes and riding on a rooster, that he should be shot at, struck down, and stabbed, to prevent him from entering the castle. Thus when Hans-My-Hedgehog rode up, they attacked him with bayonets, but he spurred his rooster on,
31、flew over the gate and up to the kings window. Landing there, he shouted to him, to give him what he had promised, or it would cost him and his daughter their lives.Then the king told the princess to go out to him, in order to save his life and her own as well. She put on a white dress, and her fath
32、er gave her a carriage with six horses, magnificent servants, money, and property. She climbed aboard and Hans-My-Hedgehog took his place beside her with his rooster and bagpipes. They said farewell and drove off.The king thought that he would never see them again. However, it did not go as he thought it would, for when they had trav
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