趣味英语题(托福选题)

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 strongest 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 bulbs 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 was 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 Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?注解：Mt. Everest珠穆朗玛峰discover 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 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 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. Imagine 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 going 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 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 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 drinks?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 sisters, 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 have 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 wife 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 contain 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 that 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 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 987654321 and where should we put them to get a total（总数） 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 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 years? 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 order 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 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. There 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 afternoons. 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 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 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? FLAVOURS1Vanilla2Maple3Chocolate4Tiger5Raspberry6Strawberry7Coffee8Moon Mist9Cherry 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 $152.00 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 times 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 at his sale price? In this case（情况） how many can be sold at the regular price（常价）? 19) Describe the shaded area （阴影部分）of the following figure（数字） in terms of（依据）a fraction（分数；小数）. 20) Sixteen players enter a tennis tournament(锦标赛). If there can be no draws（平局） how many games must be played if each player can be eliminated（淘汰）by one loss. 21) If a man can walk 4km in 1 hour and his wife can walk 5km in 1 hour, how many minutes will it take them to meet if they begin walking at the same time at opposite ends（相反的两点） of a 12km road, and have agreed（同意）to meet at the half way point（点）? 22) In 1989 the price of a soccer ball was $8.00. A financial analyst(金融分析家) predicted（预测） that the price would rise $0.25/year for the next 10 years. In what year will the price be $9.75? 23) A math student interviewed（采访）50 fifth graders（年级学生）. 41 said they like peanut butter sandwiches（花生黄油三明治）, 35 liked jam（果酱）sandwiches and 30 liked both on their sandwiches. How many students liked neither（二者都不）? 24) See how many triangles（三角形） you can draw using any three of the five points on the circle as vertices（顶点）. 25) Nobody knows how old Aunt Helen is but she gave a few hints（提示）. She had passed（度过）1/20 of her life before she started school. She spent（花）3/20 of her life in school; She worked for 1/10 of her life before she got married（结婚）. She was married for 2/5 of her life. Her husband（丈夫）died after 7/10 of her life. From reading Uncle Harrys gravestone（墓碑）you find out that she has been a widow（寡妇）for 24 years. How old is Aunt Helen? 26) If a ball is dropped from a height（高度）of 100m, each time it hits（撞击，碰击）the ground（地面）it bounces（反弹）3/5 of the height it fell. How far will the ball have travelled in the 5th bounce? 27) A line of length 4 is divided into nine equal（相等的）segments（部分）. Find a fraction（分数）to describe the length AB. 28）Uncle Henry was driving to Halifax when he spotted（发觉）a big green gorilla（大猩猩）on the side of the road. He screeched（发出尖利声）to a stop, jumped out of his car. He saw the outline（轮廓）of a number on the gorilla. He couldnt quite see the number, but he knew it was a 4 digit number. And: 1) He remembered seeing a number 1. 2) In the hundreds place he remembers the number is 3 times the number in the thousands place. 3) He said the number in the ones place is 4 times the number in the tens place. 4) Finally he said the number 2 is sitting in the thousands place.What is the number? 29）Elmer Fudd decided（决定）to grow a garden so he could make salad（沙拉）. He wants to make it 10.1 m long and 4.2 m wide. However, in order to avoid（避免，防止）Bugs Bunny（兔巴哥；宾尼兔）from entering his garden he must make a fence surrounding（围绕）the garden. He decides to make the fence 11.2 m long and 5.0 m wide. What is the area between the fence and the garden?30）Dave gave Charlotte half of his pogs. Charlotte gave Johnnie half of the pogs she received（收到）from Dave. Johnnie kept 8 of those pogs and gave the remaining（剩余的）10 to Dana. How many pogs did Dave give Charlotte?31)a) Mr. Mason asked the children to open their math books to the facing pages whose page numbers add up to（总计达）85. To which pages should the children turn? Mark accidentally（偶然地）tore（撕）out a page of his math book. Mr. Mason asked him what page it was. Mark said that the sum（总和）of the page numbers on the facing pages was 127. What are the page numbers on the pages Mark tore out of the book?32）a) If you saved（存，攒）$2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1, $6.00 on March 1, $8.00 on April 1, and so on, how much money would you save in one year? b) If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1, $8.00 on March 1, $16.00 on April 1, and so on（等等）. How much money would you save in one year?33）Dennis the Menace is thinking of two numbers. Their greatest common factor（因数） is 6. Their least common multiple（倍数）is 36. One of the numbers is 12. What is the other number?34)A Drug Store（药店）parking lot（停车场）has space（空间）for 1000 cars. 2/5 of the spaces are for compact cars（小型汽车）. On Tuesday, there were 200 compact cars and some standard size（标准大小）cars in the parking lot. The parking lot was 3/4 full. How many standard size cars were in the parking lot?35)How many triangles（三角形）are in this figure（图表）? 36）Can you solve（解决）this magic square（魔方）? Put the remaining numbers from 0 to 15 in the 16 small squares（正方形）. The sum of the four numbers in each row, column（纵行）and two diagonals（对角线）must be 30. 15 | | | 12 -+-+-+- | 10 | 9 | -+-+-+- | | | 11 -+-+-+- 3 | | | 037）Mary and Jason were making propellers（螺旋桨）for their wooden helicopters（直升机）. Mary put a number on her propellor and noticed(注意到) that when she turned the propellor she had the same number. Jason was trying to think of a number that he could put on his that had the same rotational（旋转的）symmetry（对称）(looks the same turned upside down). What is the next larger number that has this property（特性）?38）a) Mr. and Mrs. Callahan and their 3 children paid（花费）$7.00 for tickets. Which game do they plan to see? SOFTBALL（垒球）: Adults（成人）$2.00 Children $1.00 BASKETBALL: Adults $3.00 Children $1.50 SOCCER: Adults $5.00 Children $2.50b) How much change would Mr. and Mrs. Callahan get if they took their children to see the basketball game and paid for it with a $20.00 bill（钞票）?39）Ammie passed around a basket of strawberries（草莓）to the girls at her party. Before the party she ate 5 strawberries and gave a friend 3. Eight girls arrived at the party. The first girl took a strawberry, the second girl took 3 strawberries, the third girl took 5 strawberries and so on. After the last girl took her strawberries, the basket was empty. How many strawberries were in the basket at the beginning?40）A side（边）of square B is four times the length（长度）of a side of square A. How many times greater is the area（面积）of square B than the area of square A? 41）Shane the Snail started at the dot（小圆点）. What side will he be on when he has crawled（爬行）13/20 of the distance（距离）around the regular pentagon（规则五边形）of equal（相等的）sides? 42）A rectangular（长方形的）kitchen table is three times as long as it is wide. If it were 3m shorter and 3 m wider it would be a square. What are the dimensions（大小；体积）of the rectangular table? 43）A manufacturer（制造商；制造厂）claims（声称）that a new motor oil saves 5 percent（百分之一）of the gasoline（汽油）used by a car. If you drive 24,000 kilometres a year and he gets 32 kilometres a gallon（加仑）of gasoline, how many gallons of ga