Questions:
1.Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad?
2.Can you go to the Cinema with your watch broken?
3.Why is the comet like Mickey Mouse?
4.What's the largest room in the world?
5.What's the poorest bank in the world?
6.When is coffee like the surface of the earth?
7.What month do soldiers hate?
8.When is a person not a person?
9.When is a door not a door?
10.When are boys not boys?
11.When is a clock dangerous?
12.Why is tennis so noisy?
13.If a cabbage and a carrot raced, which one would win?
14.How many feet are there in a yard?
15.When are people like glasses?
16.What beam is lighter than all the other beams?
17.What animal eats with its tail?
Keys:
1.Mom is closer, because dad is farther.
2.Of course not,for I don't have the time.
3.It's a star with a tail.
4.The room for improvement.
5.The river bank.
6.When it's ground.
7.March.
8.When he is a little cross.
9.When it's ajar.
10.When they're bare-footed.
11.When it runs down the stairs and strikes one.
12.Each player raises a racket.
13.The cabbage,because it's always ahead.
14.It depends on how many people stand in the yard.
15.When they make spectacles of themselves.
16.lightbeam.
17.All animals do. No one takes off its tail while eating.
Notes:
8.cross adj.烦恼,恼火; n.十字架
9.ajar/+'DNα:/adj.(门)虚掩着,露了一条缝的音似a jar(一只壶)。
10.bare-footed赤脚,音似bear-footed,脚和熊一样。
11.strikes one另一层意思是:击中一个人
12.racket/'r$kit/n.(网球等的)球拍;喧哗,喧闹 raise a racket大吵大闹
13.a head of cabbage一颗卷心菜
15make a spectacle of oneself 使自己出丑,出洋相