英语谜语11则

1.It looks like sugar, but it's not sweet.It looks like cotton, but it can' t spin.

It comes in winter and makes the weather colder.What is it?

2.You can't catch his body; you can't see his shadow.When strong, he shakes the house,
when weak, the tree leaves.

3.When I come down from the sky, I make everything wet.What am I ?

4.What animal carries two hills on its back?

5.What animal wears big black glasses on its face?

6.What animal sleeps in daytime but flies at night?

7.They are of many beautiful colors: red, yellow,pink, purple, blue, blue, orange and white.
Some of them smell very sweet. You can see lots of them in spring and summer. When
autumn comes,they become fewer and fewer. In winter you can hardly find them in the fields.
Then they come back again with spring. What are they?

8.It's round and green outside and yellow or red inside. We have it in summer. It grows in the
fields. It can grow as big as a basketball, or even bigger. It is very sweet and very good to eat.
I an sure you know it. And you like to eat it, don't you? Can you tell me now what it is?

9.What goes up every time the rain comes down?

10.Thousands in one big family are busy every day, making sweets for others and giving them
away.

11."If" is between us. Can you guess what English word it is?

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