【題目】 Has anyone told you that it’s fun to play with English words? For a long time these “words within words” in English have been used to surprise and educate us…and they often make us laugh too. Now we go to learn about them.

Riddles(謎語)

How did the animals open the zoo door? They used a monkey! What’s the longest word in English? Smiles—there’s a “mile” between the first and last letters! These jokes —a question followed by a surprising answer — are known as “riddles”. But the ones above are examples of a special kind of riddle, a riddle which is funny because a word is hidden within another word. Many English speakers are crazy about this kind of words with double meaning. And it can be found in texts written in English a very long time ago. But riddles are not the only example of “words within words”.

Hidden words

During Victorian times (1837—1901), the game of hiding words within a whole sentence became popular. Look carefully at this sentence—The king eats his lunch in a fine palace. Can you see that the countries “China” and “Nepal” are hidden in it? The Victorians even used hidden words to teach children history and geography at school. Today we still see hidden word games in books and magazines, but we also use hidden words in jokes.

Palindromes(回文詞)

Palindromes are words and phrases which can be read the same forwards and backwards. The pop group “Abba”, for example, is a palindrome. The sentence “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is also a palindrome. We find them interesting, but they can also be funny: I kept receiving emails about reading maps backwards, but then I realized it was just spam(垃圾郵件)!

【1】Which of the following is a riddle?

A. step—pets, part—trapB. hiding words within a whole sentence

C. silent—listen, the eyes—they seeD. Which letter is a question? Y (Why) .

【2】By reading the article we can know “___________”.

A. Riddles are the only example of “words within words”.

B. Victorians even used riddles to teach kids history at school.

C. “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is a palindrome as well.

D. These “words within words” in English often make us cry.

【3】The best title of the passage is ________.

A. It’s fun to play with wordsB. “Words within words” educate us

C. Riddles & Hidden wordsD. The pop group “Abba”

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】A

【解析】

文章主要介紹了玩英語詞是有趣的，關(guān)于英語中的一些字謎類型，有單詞中的謎語，句子中的謎語和回文詞。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章介紹的英語字迷，可知D項(xiàng)是一個(gè)字謎，Which letter is a question? Y (Why)那個(gè)字母是一個(gè)問題，Y的發(fā)音和why是一樣的；故選D。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“Was it a car or a cat I saw?” is also a palindrome.可知這句話是一個(gè)回文詞；故選C。

【3】主旨大意題。根據(jù)文章主要介紹了玩英語詞是有趣的，關(guān)于英語中的一些字謎類型，有單詞中的謎語，句子中的謎語和回文詞；故選A。

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