英语迷语,英文谜语

　　1.I look like a house ,but my body is covered by black and white stripes.
　　2.I can run very quickly. I have antlers（鹿角）on my head.
　　3.I am an animal kept by farmers to produce milk.
　　4.I am not a fish but look like a large fish and live in the sea.I am a warm-blood mammal.（热血哺乳运动）
　　5.I have a very long neck and legs.I can eat the leaves on top of the tree.
　　6.I am known for my cleverness and cunning.（狡猾）
　　7.I like eating grass.People like to use my wool to make coats.
　　8.I look like a dog. But people and animals are all afraid of me, because I like eating them.
　　9.My names begin with W and end with E. I am the largest animal in the world and I live in the sea. I have beautiful blue skin. And no part of my body is thin.I'm not a fish but I breatheair.I don't have much hair . Men sometimes want to catch me for my body, I have huge fins I don't have feet. What am I ?I am......

　　答案：
　　1：斑马/zebra
　　2：鹿/deer
　　3：奶牛/cow
　　4：海豚/dolphin
　　5：长颈鹿/giraffe
　　6：狐狸/fox
　　7：羚羊/antelope
　　8：狼/wlof
　　9：鲸鱼/whale


　　1.What gets larger，the more you take away？什么东西你拿走越多，反而越大？（Ahole.洞）

　　2.What goes on four legs in the morning，on two at noon，and on three in the evening？什么走路开始用四条腿，后来用两条腿，最后用三条腿？（人。他们刚生下来的时候用四肢爬行，后来用双腿走路，老年时又不得不依靠拐杖走。）

　　3.What do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon？把一只啄木鸟和一只识途的鸽子融合在一起，会得到什么？（将得到一只送信时会敲门的鸟）

　　4.Where does afternoon come before morning in the world？世界上哪个地方下午比早上先到？（在字典里。）

　　5.Can you tell me some thing about the great scientists of the 18th century？你能告诉我一些18世纪伟大科学家的事吗？（他们都已过世。）
　　6.What month do soldiers hate?
　　--March (因为三月行军)
　　7.Which can move faster, heat or cold?
　　--Heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷，患感冒)
　　8.What is the smallest room in the world? （蘑菇）
　　9.How do we know the ocean is friendly?
　　--It waves. (起波浪，招手致意)
　　10.Why is the library the highest building?
　　--It has the most stories. (故事，（楼）层)

谜语100则

——英特英语学校整理

Riddles (I)

1.What is smaller than an insect’s mouth?

2.What season is the most dangerous one?

3.What’s too much for me，just right for two，but nothing at? all for three?

4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?

5.How many feet are in a yard?

6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?

7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?

8.What has hands but no feet， a face but no eyes，tells but does not talk?

9.How many months have 28 days?

10.Which horses have six legs?

Keys (I)

1.Anything it eats.

2.Autumn. Because it is also FALL.

3.A secret.

4.March fourth. When a war breaks out，they’ll have to march forth.

5.It depends on how many people are standing in it.

6.A photographer.

7.The number 8.

8.Take away the upper half and 0 is left.

8.A clock.

9.All of them. Each month has its 28th day.

10.All horses have forelegs(four legs) in front and two in back， so they all have six legs

Riddles (II)

11.Why don’t babies need glasses?

12.What do you drop when you need it and? take? back? when? you don’t?

13.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?

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

15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?

16.What is the center of gravity?

17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?

18.When Columbus discovered America，where did he stand?

19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?

20.When the boy fell into the water，what’s the first? thing? he did?

Keys (II)

11.Because they like bottles better.

12.An anchor.(锚)

13.A monkey can have fleas，but a flea can’t have monkeys.

14.A blackboard.

15.Sixty.

16.The letter V.

17.A doorbell.

18.On his feet.

19.A cat on a chair waiting for a mouse.

20.He got wet first.

Riddles (III)

21.Who isn’t your sister and isn’t your brother，but is still? a child of your mother and father?

22.What has teeth but can’t eat?

23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?

24.Which candle burns longer: a black one or a white one?

25.Why does a cook wear a high，white hat?

26.Can you name five days of the? week? without? saying: Monday， Tuesday，Wednesday，Thursday，Friday?

27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?

28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps，a big mouth? but? never speaks?

29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it. How can? you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?

30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?

Keys (III)

21.You yourself are.

22.A comb.

23.A farmer. He can? raise? pigs， chickens? and? so? on? without lifting them.

24.Neither.Because all candles burn shorter.

25.To cover his head.

26.The day before yesterday，yesterday，today， tomorrow， and? the day after tomorrow.

27.A hot dog.

28.A river.

29.Give three girls an apple each，and give the fourth girl? her apple in the basket.

30.Envelope.

Riddles (IV)

31.Three men were under one umbrella，but none of them? got? wet.How do they do it?

32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?

33.How much earth can you take from a hole 2 feet long， 2? feet wide and 2 feet deep?

34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?

35.What is pronounced like one letter，written with three letters，and belongs to all animals?

36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?

37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

38.What cannot be seen but only heard，and will not speak unless spoken to?

39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?

40.What part of a clock is always old?

Keys (IV)

31.It was not raining.

32.In a dictionary.

33.None.Because it has been taken out already.

34.A flag.

35.Eye.

36.Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.

37.Trouble.

38.An echo.(回声)

39.Short.

40.The second hand.

Riddles (V)

41.What person does every man take his hat off to?

42.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?

43.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?

44.What appears once in every minute，twice in every? moment， but not once in thousand years?

45.What would you say if you saw a ghost(鬼)?

46.Which is the left side of a cake?

47.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way street，but paid no attention to him. Why ?

48.Where should the milk be best stored ?

49.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?

50.What always has one eye open but can’t see?

Keys (V)

41.A barber.

42.Water.

43.I C U

44.The letter M.

45.I would say nothing and run as fast as possible.

46.The side that isn’t eaten.

47.The truck driver was walking there.

48.In a cow.

49.The ground.

50.A needle.

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Riddles ( VI )

51.What goes all over the house，but touches nothing?

52.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

53.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?

54.Why is a river rich?

55.I have cities but no houses，forests but no trees; rivers but without water; what am I?

56.A man jumped from a plane，but there was nothing? wrong? with him. Do you know why?

57.In a train，a woman saw other peoples’ faces were dirty. What would she do，do you know?

58.Why did John say he didn’t know where the sun was?

59.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?

60.Why does Tom’s mother go to work by plane every day?

Keys ( VI )

51.A sound or voice.

52.My name.

53.The letter "C".

54.Because it has two banks.

55.A map.

56.Because the plane is on the ground.

57.She would close her eyes，of course.

58.Because it was at night.

59.In bed.

60.Because she works in a plane.

Riddles ( VII )

61.What man can not live inside a house?

62.What match can’t be put in a match box?

63.What is it，which will tomorrow and was be yesterday?

64.What has many teeth but never uses them for eating?

65.The more you take away， the bigger I become. What am I?

66.What is that which has no leg but a body and a long neck?

67.What part of London is in Brazil?

68.What is that you ought to keep after you give it to somebody else?

69.When is it correct to say "I is"?

70.What is that which has a mouth，but never speaks， and? a? bed， but never sleeps in it?

Keys ( VII )

61.A snowman.

62.Football match，basketball match，and so on.

63.Today.

64.A comb.

65.A hole.

66.A bottle.

67.The letter "L".

68.A promise.

69.When we say "I is a prone."

70.A river.

Riddles ( VIII )

71.What two things can’t you have for breakfast?

72.What do most gardeners not like to grow?

73.If a band plays in a thunderstorm，who is most likely to? get hit by lightening?

74.If you were to throw a white stone into? the? Red? Sea， what would it become?

75.How many sweets can you put into an empty bag?

76.How can you leave the room with two legs and return with six legs?

77.How could you fall off a twenty-foot ladder and not get hurt?

78.I unwrapped a lump of sugar and put? it? in? my? coffee. The sugar didn’t get wet. Why ?

79.If it takes three and a half minutes to? boil? one? egg， how long does it take to boil four eggs?

80.If three birds are sitting on a fence and you shoot and kill one of them，how many will be left?

?????????? Keys ( VIII )

71.Lunch and supper.

72.They don’t like to grow their age.

73.Conductors are.

74.It remains a white stone.

75.One sweet. Because a second sweet can’t be put? into? an? empty pocket.

76.Fetch a chair somewhere ，and you’ll understand it.

77.The ladder might be lying on the ground instead of against a wall.

78.You have not had water yet.

79.Three and a half minutes.

80.One - the dead one.

Riddles ( IX )

81.When is your uncle’s sister not your aunt?

82.Mrs.Smith has nine children，half of them are girls. How? can this be true?

83.Where? can you never tell the truth?

84.What goes over the fields all day，and sits in? the? cupboard all night?

85.What walks around all day and lies under the? bed? at? night with its tongue hanging out?

86.How many cheese sandwiches can you eat on an empty stomach?

87.When will a net hold water?

88.Why is a room full of married couples empty?

89.What table has no leg?

90.What tables grow in the fields?

Keys ( IX )

81.When she is my mother.

82.The others are also girls.

83.When you are lying anywhere.

84.Our clothes.

85.Our shoes.

86.Only one.

87.When the water is frozen.

88.Because there is not a single man in the room.

89. A timetable or vegetable.

90.Vegetables.

Riddles ( X )

91.Which American man has had the largest family?

92.A hungry donkey was tied to a rope? eight? feet? long. About thirty feet away there was? a? basket? of? fresh? carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots. How did he reach them?

93.What can you hold in your left hand，but not? in? your? right hand?

94.I have seven letters.

?? The first two stand for a boy.

?? The first three stand for? a girl.

?? The first four stand for a brave boy.

95.Why does a man’s hair become grey before his moustaches?

96.Why are people close? to? their? mothers? instead? of? their fathers?

97.Where can you easily put your right hand，but can? never? put your left hand?

98.What question can never get answer "YES."?

99.What is the beginning of everything，also the end of life?

100.Mary had a big dog，and I had a smaller one. One day，the? two dogs raced to see which ran faster. The dogs were soon tired out. Finally，my dog won the 10-mile race. Now? which? dog? had? more sweat on its body?

Keys ( X )

91.George Washington. He was Father of America.

92.The donkey can eat those carrots easily. Because? the? other end of the rope was not tied to anything.

93.You can hold your right hand in your left hand， but you? can not hold your right hand in your right hand.

94.HEROINE.

95.Because a man’s moustaches come up after his hair.

96.Because their father is always farther(father).

97.You can easily put your right hand on your? left? elbow， but you never put your left hand there.

98.Are you asleep?

99.The letter "E".

100.Neither dog had sweat on its body. Dogs never sweat.