脑筋急转弯Brain Teaser

Why does a bicycle stand up without a kickstand (脚架）？

参考答案：Because it is going.

Why do we all go to bed at night?

参考答案：Because the bed won’t come to us.

You’re walking in the sands, but you can’t see your footprints when you look back. Why?

参考答案：Because you’re walking backwards.

A famous singer sang beautifully at the theatre, but nobody clapped. Why?

参考答案：Because there were no audience at the theatre.

A man was walking in the street when suddenly his trousers dropped off. Why was he neither shy nor worried?

参考答案：Because the trousers dropped off from his hand.

Why did the boy take a ladder to school?

参考答案：Because he wanted to go to high school.

Why does the conductor cut a hole in your railway ticket?

参考答案：Let you pass through.

You can catch it easily but you have never seen it with your eyes. What is it?

参考答案：A cold.

What kind of water can’t freeze?

参考答案：Hot water.

Li Ming is going to listen to English while Zhang Hua is going to listen to songs. How can they both use only one recorder at the same time?

参考答案：They can listen to an English song together.

recorder （录音机）是啥？这个年代的人估计很少有见过了。

Why is twice ten like two times eleven?

参考答案：Because twice ten is twenty, and two times eleven is twenty, too (twenty-two).

See if you can put three sixes together so as to make seven.

参考答案：6+6/6

Can 11 and 2 make 1?

参考答案：Eleven o’clock plus two is one o’clock.

When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

参考答案：When they make 22.

What is the difference between 100 and 1000?

参考答案：Nothing (0).

Why did the girl sit on her watch?

参考答案：She wanted to be on time.

What grammar term do wives dislike?

参考答案：The third person.

那个时候就有第三者的说法了啊。

What building is the tallest one?

参考答案：The library. It has the most stories (storeys).

公平

有一次法国哲学家蒙丹一本正经地说：“看来，世界上分配得最公平的要算是良心了。” “你为什么这样说呢？” 蒙丹答：“从来没有人埋怨过自己缺少良心。”

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