When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your

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

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

Most riddles use words that have double meanings orshare the same sound like “hear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, youwill have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities ofdifferent words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on theriddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to theright 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 havehundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to looksomewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore, where you will beable to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. Youcan even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your ownriddles.

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

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

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 enoughclues            B. havea very long history

C. were used in World WarOne         D. were first used inancient 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 solveriddles     

D. shows the benefits of telling riddles

4.To collect riddles, the author suggests ________.

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

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【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

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