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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. |
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6. When are people like glasses? |
When they make spetacles of themselves. |
7. What beam is lighter than all the other
beams? |
Lightbeam. |
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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。) |