簡易英文迷語

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English Riddles

  1)  What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
  2)  What letter is a part of the head?
  3)  What letter is a drink?
  4)  What letter is a body of water?
  5)  What letter is a vegetable?
  6)  What has many keys but can't open any doors?  
  7)  Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building?  
  8)  What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?  
  9)  If you drop a white hat into the Red Sea, what does it become?  
10)  What do you call a boomerang that won't come back?
11)  What is white when it's dirty and black when it's clean?

Answer Key

  1)  B. (bee)    (chenxiaoshan猜中)

  2)  I. (eye)    (chenxiaoshan猜中)

  3)  T. (tea)    (chenxiaoshan猜中)

  4)  C. (sea)    (如夢令猜中)

  5)  P. (pea)    (揭曉)

  6)  A piano. (or a keyboard)    (PPA猜中)

  7)  Yes, because the Empire State Building can't jump!    (PPA猜中)

  8)  An envelope.    (PPA猜中)

  9)  Wet.    (chenxiaoshan猜中)

10)  A stick.    (揭曉)

11)  A blackboard.    (chenxiaoshan猜中)

chenxiaoshan

1,  b   (bee)
2,  i    (eye)
3,  t   (tea)

chenxiaoshan

11, blackboard

如梦令

4、C

chenxiaoshan

6,    book

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1,2,3,11對

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4 對

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6(book)不對

chenxiaoshan

9,   wet

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9.正確

PPA

6)  What has many keys but can't open any doors?
      a keyboard
  7)  Can a kangaroo jump higher than the Empire State Building?
     Yes, because the Empire State Building can't jump.
  8)  What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?
      eye ?

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回复 PPA 的帖子

6.正確。還可以是鋼琴或電子鋼琴。
7.對的。這題難不倒你，十分佩服。
8.不對。請再想想。

PPA

8)  What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?
      eve (pay attention to its pronunciation)

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　　你的想法無疑很聰明。不過發音跟詞義還是有區別，請再從
letter詞義落墨，自有趣味之處。老外的東西，幽默多於轉彎。

PPA

8. What starts with E, ends with E and only has one letter?
     Is it an envelope? Because "one letter means written message addressed to a person in an  envelope by post.