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1. Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad? 

Mom is closer, because dad is farther.

2. What's the poorest bank in the world?   

The river bank.   

3. When is a man not a man? 

When he is a little cross. ( cross adj. = angry )

4. When is a door not a door?  

When it's ajar. [ ajar adj. ( of a door ) = slightly open ]

5. Why is tennis so noisy?   

Because every player raises a racket.

6. When are people like glasses?         

When they make spetacles of themselves.

7. What beam is lighter than all the other

   beams?  

Lightbeam.

8. What animal eats with its tail? 

All animals. No one takes off its tail whiel eating.

9. What is heavier in summer than in winter?  

Traffic to the beach.

10.What clothing is always sad?        

 Blue jeans.               

11. Two wrongs don't make a right, but what do two rights make?

 The first airoplane. ( two rights: the two brothers, Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright )

12. Mary kissed her aunt good-bye but her aunt didn't kiss her back. Why?

 Her aunt kissed her face. ( Try to read `kiss her back` in two ways, i.e. kiss `her back and kiss her `back, and you can see the difference. )

13. What makes more noise than a pig caught under a fence? 

 Two or more pigs.

14. How do you know policemen are strong?

  Because they can hold up traffic with just one hand.

15. Why do giraffes have long neck?

  Because their heads are far from their bodies.

( 提示：如果不从一词多义，一语双关，同音不同义，或成语上去理解， 这些回答就很难懂了。)