英语趣味英语题托福选题.docx

1、英语趣味英语题托福选题【关键字】英语 Question 1What letter is next in this sequence?M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,_ 注释：letter n. 字母sequence n. 序列 Question 2Whats full of holes but still holds water? 注释：be full of 充满了 hole n. 孔，洞；still ad. 仍然hold vt. 抓住，保持住sponge n. 海绵 Question 3What is light as a feather, but even the stron

2、gest man cannot hold it more than a minute?注释：feather n. 羽毛even ad. 甚至breath n. 一口气 Question 4A man says, Brothers and sisters, have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son. Who is he pointing at? Question 5A light-tight wooden box has three switches on the outside that control three light bu

3、lbs on the inside. When the box is closed you can turn the switches on or off but when you open the box how can you tell which switch controls each bulb without touching the switches? Question 6Johnnys mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What wa

4、s the name of her fourth child? Question 7There was an airplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible? 注释：airplane crashsingle a. 单个的；未婚的，单身的survive vi. 幸存possible a. 可能的 Question 8Before was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?注解：珠穆朗玛峰disc

5、over vt. 发现 Question 9Why did Ned Kelly rob only the rich? Question 10Whats the hardest thing about learning to ride a horse? 注释：此题的妙处在于the hardest一词有最难的，同时也有最硬的意思。Question 11A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a

6、 long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why? Question 12Which is correct to say, The yolk of the egg are white, or The yolk of the egg is white?Question 13What tree is always very sad? Question 14What weather do mice and rats fear? Question 15Why are people

7、 tired on April Fools Day? Question 1What country is popular on Thanksgiving Day? Question 1Why is an empty purse always the same? Question 1When can you get water with a net? Question 1What is full when its used and empty when its at rest? Question What do every couple have in common? Riddles1. Ima

8、gine you are in a sinking（正在下沉的） rowboat surrounded（包围） by sharks. How would you survive（求生）?2. What came first, the chicken or the egg?3. While on my way to St. Ives I saw a man with 7 wives Each wife had 7 sacks Each sack had 7 cats Each cat had 7 kittens Kitten, cats, sacks, wives How many were g

9、oing to St. Ives?4. The maker doesnt want it. The buyer doesnt use it. And the user doesnt see it. What is it?5. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?6. Why is it so easy to weigh（称）fish?7. What kind of nut（坚果） has no shell（壳）?8. If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you

10、dont have it. What is it?9. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?10. What book was once owned by only the wealthy, but now everyone can have it? You cant buy it in a bookstore or take it from a library.11. What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?12. What has to be broken before it

11、 can be used?13. What does no man want, yet no man wants to lose?14. How many bricks（砖头） does it take to complete a building made of brick?15. What goes up and never comes down?16. What has feet and legs, and nothing else?17. What is the moon worth?18. What grows when it eats, but dies when it drink

12、s?19. What stays where it is when it goes off?20. You heard me before, yet you hear me again. Then I die, til you call me again. What am I?21. There is a man standing over a dead body in a coffin, and another man walks in and asks,whos in the coffin（棺材）. The first man replies（回答）, brothers and siste

13、rs, I have none, but thismans father is my fathers son. Whos in the coffin? 22. If you were in a dark room with a candle, a woodstove（火炉）, a match and a gas lamp which doyou light first? 23. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?24. Some months have 30 days, some months have 31 days; how many hav

14、e 28?25. Take off my skin - I wont cry, but you will! What am I?26. The more it dries, the wetter it gets. What is it?27. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?28. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall, and he wears size 13 sneakers. He has a wif

15、e and 2 kids. What does he weigh? 29. What can go up and come down without moving?30. What can you catch but not throw?31. What one word has the most letters in it?32. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has T in it?33. What travels around the world yet stays in one corner?34. What two words co

16、ntain the most letters?35. Whats the difference between here and there?36. Which moves faster: heat or cold?37. You answer me, although I never ask you questions. What am I?38. You cant keep this until you have given it.39. There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today th

17、at allows people to see through walls. What is it?40. What question can someone ask all day long, always get completely different answers, and yet all the answers could be correct?41. Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?42. What do you fill with empty hands?43. What object has keys

18、that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in.44. What gets larger as you take more from it?45. What questions can you never ever answer with a yes?1) How many addition signs（添加符号） should be put between digits（数字）of the number 1 and where should we put them to get a total（总数

19、） of 99? 2）Divide（分割） the face of the clock into three parts with two lines so that the sum（总数） of the numbers in the three parts are equal（相等）. 3) A man has to be at work by 9:00 a.m. and it takes him 15 minutes to get dressed（穿衣）, 20 minutes to eat and 35 minutes to walk to work. What time should

20、he get up? 4) Replace（替换）each blank（空） with the correct digit（数字）. 4 3 _ 2 4 5 _ _ 1 2 7 - 8 8 9 35) In the first year of production（制作） a play sells 1572 tickets, in its second year it sells 1753 tickets, in its third year it sells 152 less than in its second year. How many tickets are sold in 3 ye

21、ars? 6) Scientists（科学家）have just discovered（发现）people on Neptune（海王星）. There are 3 villages, 2 cities and 1 super city on Neptune. These are the populations（人口） in 1994 and 1996. 1994 1996 Eilosa 129 204 Vertu 308 292 Pridi 90 50 Dedrun 500 600 Antran 700 693 Maran 1200 1500List（列出）the places in ord

22、er of（以顺序）increasing（增加）size（大小） in 1994 and 1996. In which year was the population of the planet（星球）greater? 7) Rachel, Kim and Shawn went to Cuba for a vacation. On the way to Cuba, the plane made the trip in 315 minutes. On the return trip, the flight（航班）took 216 minutes. They stayed in Cuba for

23、3629 minutes. Estimate（估计）how long the trip took to the nearest 10. How long did the trip really take? 8) The mass（质量；重量）of the Great Pyramid（大金字塔） is 557t greater than that of the Leaning Tower of Pisa（比萨斜塔）. Stone Henge（巨石阵）has a mass of 2695t which is 95t less than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Ther

24、e once was a Greater Pyramid which had a mass twice that of the Great Pyramid, what was the mass of the Greater Pyramid. 9) The weather during Pith Possums vacation was strange. It rained on 15 different days, but it never rained for a whole day. Rainy mornings were followed（跟随；紧跟）by clear afternoon

25、s. Rainy afternoons were proceeded（继续）by clear mornings. There were 12 clear mornings and 13 clear afternoons in all. How long was the vacation? 10) This stairway（楼梯） is made of cubes（立方体）. How many cubes would be needed to make the steps（台阶） 9 steps high? 11) If Jane is older than Kim, Kim is older

26、 than Shawn. Shawn is younger than Jane and Rachel is older than Jane List the people from oldest to youngest. 12) There are 12 people in a room. 6 people are wearing socks and 4 people are wearing shoes, 3 people are wearing both. How many people are in bare（赤裸的） feet? 13) One morning grasshopper（蚱

27、蜢；蚂蚱） fell down a hole 2 meters deep. He would climb 1/4 of a meter every day but at night he slid down（滑下） 1/8 pf a meter. At this rate, how many days until the grasshopper gets out? 14) An ice cream stand（小摊） has nine different flavors（口味；味道）. A group of children come to the stand and each buys a

28、double scoop cone（两勺的冰激凌筒） with two flavors of ice cream. If none of the children choose the same combination（组合）of flavors, and every different combination of flavors is chosen（选择）, how many children are there? FLAVOURS 1 Vanilla 2 Maple 3 Chocolate 4 Tiger 5 Raspberry 6 Strawberry 7 Coffee 8 Moon

29、Mist 9 Cherry Vanilla15) Place the digits 9,4, 7, 6, 5, 1, in the boxes in order to get the largest result（结果）. x + x = ?16) Four boys work together painting（粉刷）houses for the summer. For each house they paint they get $256.00. If the boys work for 4 months of summer and their expenses（花销，花费） are $1

30、52.00 per month, how many houses must they paint for each of them to have one thousand dollars at the end of the summer? 17) In her first year a dog breeders（饲养员）dogs produce（产下）2 puppies（小狗;幼犬）. In her second year her dogs produce three-times as many puppies. In her third year her dogs produce 5 ti

31、mes as many puppies as the first year. How many puppies will the breeder have produced in her first 3 years? If she sells the puppies for $200.00 each, how much will she have made? 18) A grocery store（杂货店）has a bake sale（甜点义卖会）on bananas. If you buy six bananas you get the sale price（折扣价）. If the grocer（杂货商）has 489 bananas how many bunches（串；束；把） of six can he sell