话说美国福布斯杂志网站上出了 10个脑筋急转弯 brainteasers,据说可以测试大脑的机敏程度,其实用来测试是否“脑残”也是可以的(参考答案附后):
第一题: Johnny的妈有三个孩子,老大叫 April,老二叫 May,老三叫什么?
第二题:没法翻译,请直接看英文: A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
第三题:在珠穆朗玛峰被发现之前,世界最高峰是哪座山?
第四题: How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
第五题:英语中哪一个词永远被拼写 incorrectly( What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly)?
6. Billie生日是 12月 28日,可是他的生日总是在夏天,这是咋回事?
7.在 British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
8.赛跑中,你超过了第二名,你现在是第几名
9. 以下两种说法哪一个正确:“ The yolk of the egg is white” or“ The yolk of the egg are white?”
10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
参考答案:
1. Johnny.
2. Meat.
3. Mt. Everest. It just wasn’ t discovered yet.
4. There is no dirt in a hole.
5. Incorrectly( except when it is spelled incorrecktly).
6. Billie lives in the southern hemisphere.
7. You can’ t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera( or iPad or cell phone) to take a picture.
8. You would be in 2 nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first.
9. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.
10. One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack.