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1. Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad? |
Mom is closer, because dad is farther. | |
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2. What's the poorest bank in the world? |
The river bank. | |
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3. When is a man not a man? |
When he is a little cross. ( cross adj. = angry ) | |
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4. When is a door not a door? |
When it's ajar. [ ajar adj. ( of a door ) = slightly open ] | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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9. What is heavier in summer than in winter? |
Traffic to the beach. | |
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10.What clothing is always sad? |
Blue jeans. | |
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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 ) | |
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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. ) | |
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13. What makes more noise than a pig caught under a fence? |
Two or more pigs. | |
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14. How do you know policemen are strong? |
Because they can hold up traffic with just one hand. | |
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15. Why do giraffes have long neck? |
Because their heads are far from their bodies. | |
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( 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。) |