Question

When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.

Riddles have been a pastime for centuries. Not only have riddles been something for passing the time, but they have also been used to pass on secret information during the Second World War. Even the ancient Greeks used riddles. They would tell riddles at parties and whoever was the first to get them right would receive prize.

Most riddles use words that have double meanings or share the same sound like “hear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.

If you are looking to tell riddles but don’t know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore, where you will be able to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. You can even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your own riddles.

After you have found some resources that have different riddles, you will need to read through them to find the right ones for you and your family: You will also need to make sure that your kids will have a chance to figure out the answers. So take your time and choose the fight family riddles to tell.

1.What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A. To recommend an interesting family activity.

B. To stress the importance of family activities.

C. To encourage children to read more books.

D. To introduce the history of riddles.

2.From the text we know that riddles _______.

A. do not have enough clues            B. have a very long history

C. were used in World War One         D. were first used in ancient Rome

3.In Paragraph 3, the author mainly ________.

A. discusses how riddles are created 

B. explains why fiddles are interesting   

C. tells people how to solve riddles     

D. shows the benefits of telling riddles

4.To collect riddles, the author suggests ________.

A. one way       B. two ways    C. three ways    D. four ways

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析： 本文介绍了一种古老的消磨时间的方法riddles。并告诉我们猜谜的方法以及找到这些字谜的地方。

1.A 推理题。根据文章第一段1,2行When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles?可知本文中作者向我们推荐了一种猜谜的游戏。故A正确。

2.B 细节题。根据文章第二段第一句Riddles have been a pastime for centuries.可知这种游戏已经存在了很长时间了。故B正确。

3.C 推理题。根据文章第三段So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.可知本段告诉我们的是猜出这些字谜的方法，就是要运用字谜里出现的线索。故C正确。

4.B  细节题。根据文章倒数第二段If you are looking to tell riddles but don’t know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore,可知作者告诉了我们两种猜字谜的方法，一种是到网络上寻找。一种是到当地的书店里找。一共有两种方法。故B正确。

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