英文谜语

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个简单的适合小学生的英语

谜语

RIDDLES

1. What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?

2. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?

3. What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night?

4. I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I?

5. Which letter is a drink?

6. Which letter is around an island?

7. Which letter is an animal?

8. Which letter is a kind of vegetable?

9. Which is the longest English word? Why?

10. Which letter is a question?

11. Which letter is a part of your face?

12. I am very big and heavy. I have a long nose and big ears. What am I ?

13. I am the tallest animal in the world. What am I ?

14. I live in the sea. I am the biggest animal in the sea. What am I ?

15. What do you call your father’s father’s only son?

16. What is the biggest ant in the world?

17. What is in the middle of the world?

18. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?

19. What is the smallest room in the world?

20. Teachers write on me with chalk. I can’t talk. What am I ?

21. You have it. You read it. There are some words and pictures on it. What is it?

22. Sometimes it looks like a boat. Sometimes it looks like a small white sun. What is it?

23.

You

throw

away

the

outside

and

cook

the

inside

.

Then

you

eat

the

outside

and

throw away

the inside

. What did you eat?

24. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

25. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never

weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

27. I fly, but I have no wings. I cry, but I have no eyes.

28. How many letters are in the alphabet?

29. I am always with you. Sometimes behind you, sometimes before you, sometimes

by your side, but you can’t see me in the dark.

30. What table is in the field?

31. What table can tell you what to do?

changes a pear into a pearl?

33. What letter makes a road broad?

34. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

35. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?

36. What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?

37. I am everywhere in the earth. Without me, you have to die. What am I ?

38. I can’t walk. I can’t fly. I can swim. What am I ?

39. I am green in

spring

and yellow in autumn. Birds like me and people like me. What

am I ?

40. Chicken grows from it. What is it?

41. It’s very small in the sky, but it’s actually very big. What is it?

42. It’s a colourful bridge in the sky. What is it?

43. Why do lions eat raw meat(

生肉

)

？

44. Why is six afraid of

seven

?

45. A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys.

How can this be possible?

46. I am white. You can drink me. I am in the dairy group. What am I ?

47. I am green or red. I am spicy and hot. I am in the vegetable group. What am I ?

48. I am a kind of fruit, green outside and red inside. What am I ?

49. I am a kind of fruit, yellow outside and white inside with small black seeds. What

am I ?

50. I am

orange

. I am thin and long. Rabbits like me very much. What am I ?

51. David was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an

umbrella

and

he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got

wet. How could this happen?

SOLUTIONS

1.

blackboard

2.

a

clock

3.

the

sun

4.a

bird

5.

T(tea)

6.

C(sea)

7.

B(bee)

8. P(pea) 9. smiles(There’s a mile between the first and the last letter.) 10. Y(why)

11.

I(eye)

12. an

elephant

13. a giraffe

14. the whale

15. father/daddy

16. an

elephant

17. the letter “r”

18. mom

19. mushroom

20. a blackboard

21.a book

22. the moon

23. chicken

24. stamp

25. fire

26. river

27. cloud

28. eight

29. shadow

30. vegetable

ble

32. “L”

33. “b”

34. (22)

35. a map

36. hot dog

37. air

38. fish

39. a tree

40. an egg

41. a star/ the sun/ the moon 42. a

rainbow

43. Because they can’t cook.

44. Because

seven

eight(ate) nine.

45. Because all of her children are boys.

46. milk

47. pepper

48. a

watermelon

49. a banana

50. a carrot

51. Because he’s bald.

谜语十则

you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? Well what goes up

and never goes down?

thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My

rain dries up all the land it touches. What am I?

can see it, but you can't touch it. It may disappear, but has never really left

you. It grows throughout the day. What is it?

common

English

verb

becomes

its

own

past

tense

by

rearranging

its

letters?

5.I have holes on the top and bottom. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still

hold water. I have holes on my left and on my rig. What am I?

6.A

word

I

know,

six

letters

it

contains,

Subtract

just

one,

and

twelve

is

what

remains. What is the word?

can

run

but

never

walks,

has

a

mouth

but

never

talks,

has

a

head

but

never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter

but not go in?

as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much

more than a minute?

two words have the most letters in it?

1.

What month do soldiers hate?

--March (

三月，行军

)

many feet are there in a yard?

--It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (

码，院子

)

is an empty purse always the same?

--There is no change in it. (

零钱，变化

)

book has the most stirring chapters?

--A cook book. (

动人的，搅拌的

)

kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?

--Hot dog. (

热狗

)

is the smallest room in the world?

--Mushroom. (

蘑菇

)

kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?

--Drink well water. (

井水，健康的

)

do we know the ocean is friendly?

--It waves. (

起波浪，招手致意

)

can move faster, heat or cold?

--Heat, because you can catch cold. (

追上冷，患感冒

)

is the library the highest building?

--It has the most stories. (

故事，

（楼）层

)

11. What table is in the field?

--Vegetable

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

--silence

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

--mirror

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and

still has a name?