两难趣味英语题

2021年1月12日发(作者：广文石)
趣味英语
一、常识题
常识 智力题
数学 语文 科普
这类考题一般都应从生活常识的角度去分析和考虑，并不需要作高深的探究，但也不
能被牵着鼻子走。例 如： How long does it take to boil two eggs if it takes four and a half
minutes to boil one egg?
不少考生的答案是：Nine minutes. 理由是煮一个鸡蛋要4.5分钟，2个鸡蛋则需9分 钟。
其实，2个鸡蛋一起煮也是4.5分钟。像这种简单的生活常识题，考生不能让人牵着鼻
子 走，否则因把简单的题目看得过于复杂而丢分就太可惜了。又如：How many angles
（角） are left if one angle is cut from a square （方形的） table? 此题答案是：Five
(angles). 但有同学回答：Three (angles). 根据常识一张方形桌子，切去一个角，应该有
5个角，而不是4 - 1 = 3。
二语言知识题语言知识和应变能力有时要从句子本身或字形上分析，有时还涉及会意
如：What is the distance between the first letter and the last letter of “smiles”? 此题答案是：
One mile. 问的是smiles这个单词中，第一个字母和最后一个字母之间的 距离有多长，
即除去第一个和最后一个字母s，剩下的是mile。又如：What appears once in every minute,
twice in every moment, but not once in thousand years? 此题答案为：The letter “m”. 问的
是在minute中出现一次，moment中出现两次，而在thousand ye ars中却一次也不出现
的是什么？考生如果仅从字面意思上理解，就会误以为题目是问：每分钟出现一 次、
每一会儿出现两次，数千年却不出现的是什么？那问题就复杂了，答案也无从探究。
三、数学推理题
能力竞赛题中常常会出现数学知识（或叫数学推理）题，解题时需要运用到 一定的数
学知识。命题形式可能是图表形式，也可能是提问形式。如：How many minutes is it
before 12 noon, if 48 minutes ago it was twice as many minutes past 9 a.m.?（2006NEPCS
高二组初赛题） 这是一道难度不小的数学推理题，答案为：44 minutes. 因为12点整

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的44分钟前为11:16，而11:16的48分钟前为10:28；9:00 + (44 × 2) = 10:28. 有时还
要运用到几何或代数知识，如：Find the ages of Mary, George, Alice, Claire and Stephen if
the sum of the ages of two of them all as follows：Mary + George = 33 years; Alice +
Claire= 95 years; Stephen + Mary = 72 years; Mary+ Claire= 87 years; Stephen + George =
73 years. 此题可用代数法求出答案，即分别用5个字母代替题中的5个人写出等式：
A + B = 33; C + D = 95; E + A = 72; A + D = 87; E + B = 73可以求得：A = 16；B = 17；
C = 24；D = 71；E = 56。
智力题与英语知识的结合
what number can you take half and leave nothing?
two word have thousands of letters in them?
5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away?
kind of dog never bite?
does afternoon always come before morning?
6what is pronounced like one letter,written with three letters,and belongs to
all animals?
number gets bigger when you turn it upside down?
day is two days before the day immediately following the day three days before the
day two days after the day immediately before Friday?
9. My first in south but not in second is in picture but not in third is in
fourth and also in fifth is in toe but not in sixth is in life but not in
am I?
10. What number gets bigger when you turn it upside down?
1,8
2,dictionary

3,sixth
4,hotdog
5,nowhere
6,eye
7,6
8，Tuesday
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9. You a re penguin
1. What letter is a body of water?C(sea)

2. What is it that found in the every center of America and Australia?
3. Why is a river rich?
4. Which letter is very useful to a deaf woman?
5. Which runs faster, heat or cold? Why?
6.下面是一道经典的英语填空题，注意，所有空格均为同一个单词：
____ is greater than God.
____ is more evil than the Devil.
The poor need ____.
The rich have ____.
If you eat ____, you will die.
7. What number should replace(代替)the question mark?
AVIATOR＝6
FIXTURE＝9
WIZARD＝1
DIVERSE＝？
8. What’s the Chinese for “six of one and half a dozen of the other?”
A. 六分之一 B. 人云亦云 C.半斤八两 D.见一面分一半
9. What three letters turn a girl into a woman?
B. DAB C. EYE
10. We don’t want it. It’s “a white elephant.” What is it?一件无用而累的东西
’s too much for two and just right for one?

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