【正文】 o that? To the Movies with FriendsIf you go to the movies and you’re paying this, is it cheaper to take one friend to the movies twice, or two friends to the movies at the same time?(It’s cheaper to take two friends at the same this case, you would only be buying three tickets, whereas if you take the same friend twice you are buying four tickets.) Height of TreeA tree doubled in height each year until it reached its maximum height over the course of ten many years did it take for the tree to reach half its maximum height?(9 years) Bird舉重的鳥What bird can lift the heaviest weight?(crane) Longest Word in the English What is the longest word in the English language?( is a mile between the first letter and the last letter.) do you call a fish with no eyes? do you call a deer with no eyes? do you call a deer with no eyes or legs?( no word? There is a mon English word that in nine letters time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English wordfrom nine letters right down to single is the original word and what are the words that it bees after removing one letter at a time?(The base word is Startling— and 22 Why is 2 times 10 the same as 2 times 11?(乘以)(Because 2 times 10 is twenty and 2 times 11 is twentytwo.(twenty, too.) Word of Three Letters I know a word of three letters, add two and fewer there will be?(fewer) Sport Three brothers share a family sport: A nonstop oldest one is fat the short。s appetite! a hen! fell off the last step! their heads are far from their bodies!!+5/5=6!+8+8+8+88+888=1000!,.! police officer was a lady! it can39。s the begining of everything! there is love between them!39。s record card with extremely poor grades? does everybody do at the same time? resembles half a pie? works only one day in a year but never gets fired? do people have two mouth? do lions eat raw meat? many sides does a circle have? animal can jump as high as a tree? can you be pletely sleepless for seven days and still lack no rest? was the Declaration of Independence signed? you throw a stone into the Red Sea,what will it bee? two39。t a tree? has eyes but can39。t want to be 、The cold war is 、 there39。s the longest word in the world? does time fly? can a dog get another tail? room has no walls, no doors, no windows and no one to live in? does afternoon always e before morning? 【參考答案】 don39。t hug? has a head and a foot but no body? has a mouth but never smiles? has a face but no head? has leaves but isn39。t got? can you tell from Peter39。s? you name the captital of every state in the ten seconds? police officer had a brother ,but the brother had no could that be? does a cat look first to one side and then to the other side when it enters a room? do you know policemen are strong ? which hand do you write? must you do before you return a book to the library?【參考答案】 it makes fat fact! it39。t jump! at night! the bottom!!! planted peech trees! walked in the other direction!! passed by a cosmetics store without looking in the window! month has at least 28 days!39。____ is greater than is more evil than the poor have rich need you eat ____, you will , the key is “ nothing”.Nothing is greater than is more evil than the poor have rich need you eat nothing, you will die.(1)聯(lián)合國的英文縮寫：(2)中華人民共和國的英文縮寫：(3)英國的英文縮寫：(4)美國的英文縮寫：(1)UN(2)PRC(3)UK(4)，看誰說得多： ： ： ： ： : : :第二篇：英語腦筋急轉(zhuǎn)彎Brainteasers stories 1 The Two Presidents The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not could this be so?(They were the same Cleveland(1837~1908) served two terms as president of the United States, but the terms were not was president from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.)’s Wrong with the Radio?A young girl was listening to the it went off for a minute and then came back on was nothing wrong with the radio or with the program transmission from the radio did not touch the radio did it go off and on?(The girl was listening to the radio in her father’s car drove through a tunnel and reception was temporarily interrupted.) Man in the Bar A man walked into a bar and asked the barman for a glass of had never met barman pulled a gun from under the counter and pointed it at the man said “Thank you” and walked should that be so?(The man had barman recognized this from his speech and drew the gun to give the man a worked and cured the hiccups, so the man was grateful(and no longer needed the water.) Last Message 遺言A man was found shot dead in his was slumped over his desk and a gun was in his was a cassette recorder on his the police entered the room and pressed the play button on the tape recorder they heard, “I can’t go have nothing to live for毫無牽掛.”Then there was the sound of a did the detective immediately know that the man had been murdered?(The cassette had started at the beginning of the man’s could have rewound it?) Tennis Two men were playing played five sets and each man won three did they do this?(The two men were partners playing doubles.) YoungerBen was 20 years old in 1980 but only 15 years old in e?(Ben was born in the year in 1985 was 15 and in was Rod James ordered a fishing rod, priced at $, James is an Eskimo who lives in a very remote part of Greenland and the import rules there forbid any package longer than 4 feet to be fishing rod was 4 feet and 1 inch, just a little too long, so how can the fishing rodbe mailed to James without breaking the rules? Ideally 完美主義者James would like the fishing rod to arrive in one piece!(Insert the fishing rod into a box which measures 4 feet on all sides, the fishing rod will fit within the diagonal 對(duì)角線 of the box with room to spare.) and Square位置Here is a word, it goes like letter M es before is before R and after is after is in the square before you know the word?(Number) of the Week Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday?(Yesterday, to