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 right 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

【答案】

 

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一种好的家庭活动——猜谜语。文章从谜语的历史，猜谜语的方法；收集谜语的途径以及如何选择合适的家庭谜语等方面介绍了谜语。

1.A考查作者的写作目的。国家文章第一段中的Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.可知，猜谜语使全家大笑，有时苦思冥想才能找到答案。所以这种活动很有好处。这就是作者的写作目的。故选A。

2.B考查细节理解。根据文章第二段中的Riddles have been a pastime for centuries.可知，谜语已经有好几个世纪的历史，故选B。A错是因为谜语有充足的线索；C错在谜语在二战使用不是一战；D错在古代希腊使用谜语，但也没说是首先使用，更不是罗马。

3.C考查段落的主旨要义。根据文章第三段中的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 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，这里作者在告诉读者如何猜测谜语。故选C。

4.B考查细节理解。根据文章第四段可知，作者给出了两个收集谜语的方法：一、上网查找；二、到书店找。故选B。

考点：考查说明文的阅读理解。