英语知识竞赛
英语知识竞赛
一 知识性问答题
1.Taiwan is the small province in China. Is that right? (No, it isn’t.)
2.In which country was the first modern computer made? (In U.S.A)
3.Did Karl Marx die in 1983? (No, he didn’t.)
4.Was Shakespeare American great writer? (No, he wasn’t.)
5.Whales are the biggest animals in the world, aren’t they? (Yes, they are.)
6.Is it true that man first went to the moon in 1950? (No, it isn’t.)
7.Is it true that English has the second largest number of speakers? (Yes, it is.)
8.The 36th Olympic Game was held in Japan, wasn’t it? (No, it wasn’t.)
9.Is England a country? (No, it isn’t.)
10.Who was the first president of the United States? (George Washington.)
11.Please name four countries where English is spoken as the first language.
12.Name at least five big rivers in China.
13.Name at least five European countries.
14.Name the four countries that have the longest history in the world.
15.List four uses of trees.
16.What are the seven continents in the world?
17.There are many English in public places in China. Please give at least two examples.
18.Give at least two examples that show English English and American English are different.
19.Give at least three English phrases that can be translated “没关系”.
20.Please list at least three famous novels written by foreign writers.
21.The bad boy beats the man black and blue. What does “black and blue” mean here? Please choose one answer from the following.
A. 黑与蓝 B. 黑一块,蓝一块
C. 青一块,紫一块 D. 全身黑血
(The answer is B)
22.My father has not any brothers, but I have an uncle. Who is he? Choose one answer from the following.
A. My father’s sister B. My mother’s uncle
C. My father’s uncle D. My mother’s brother
(The answer is D)
23.英语中有个字母听起来是“你”,这个字母是什么?(U)
24.我们通常说“你好酷呀!”这里的“酷”来源于英语中的哪个单词?( cool )
25.我们通常穿的短袖汗衫为什么叫“T血杉”?(因为呈形,英语叫T-shirt)
26.美国本土有多少个州?(48)
27.UFO表示什么意思?(不明飞行物)
28.哪一个国家被戏称为“车轮上的国家“(美国)
29.西方文化中哪一个数字最不吉利?用英语回答。( thirteen)
30.七个小矮人是哪个童话故事中的人物?(白雪公主)
二 快速反应抢答题
1.It takes five one hare minutes to eat one carrot. Then how many minutes will it take five hares to eat five carrots? (Five minutes.)
2.How do you call your father’s mother’s daughter’s sister? (Aunt)
3.Which is the twenty-third letter in English? (W)
4.Which is the seventh letter in English? (G)
5.Who is your father’s uncle’s grandson’s sister? (My sister.)
6.A word has three letters. It’s first is in “cake” but not in “make”; the second letter is in “coat” but not in “cold”; the third letter is in “letter” but not in “let”. What is the word? (Car.)
7.When you say the letters C, I, U in a certain order, they will make a sentence. What is the sentence? (I, C, U =I see you.)
8.How many minutes are there in a day? (1440 minutes.)
9.Can you go from Shanghai to America by train? (No, I can’t.)
10.Lucy’s father works in a school. He has two classes every morning. What is he? (He is a teacher.)
11.Mr White has one son and Mrs White has one son, too. How many sons do Mr and Mrs White have? (They have one son.)
12.Kate is an English girl. Her father and mother have six children. Half are boys and half are girls. How many brothers and sisters does Kate have? (Kate has three brothers and two sisters.)
13.I’m round. I’m your good friend but you kick me with your feet. What am I? (A football.)
14.Why is the letter “A” like 12 o’clock? (Because it is in the middle of day.)
15.What letter is an insect(昆虫)? (It’s B. Because it sounds like “bee”.)
17.There are two Americans. The little American is the son of the big one, but the big American is not the father of the little one. Who is the big American? (Mother.)
19.I walked for two days and came to a village. I stayed in the village for three days. I walk for two days and came back? How many days was I away from home? (7days.)
20.My first is in snow but not in ice, my second is in rose and also in
ice, my third is not in pencil but in paper, my whole is in a place where there is a lot of water. What am I? (Sea)
21.I’m ten. My brother is twice as old as I am. How old will my brother be ten years later?. ( Thirty.)
22.Mr Smith has four sons and each son has a sister. How many children does Mr Smith have? (Five.)
23.How many months that have 28 days in a year? (Twelve.)
24.If a train doesn’t have tea, what will it become? (It’ll become rain.)
25.Is three times thirteen more than thirteen times three? (No.)
26.What do you call a man if he comes from Japan? (Japanese.)
27.Which can we eat, sheep, cow, chicken or pig? (Chicken.)
28.Which letter is a drink? S,T, U or V? (T.)
29.Which word becomes shorter if we add a syllable, long or short? (Short.)
30.There are two words. They are “longest” and “shortest”. Which becomes longer if we take away some letters? (Shortest.)
31.A word has five letters. If you take two away, it has six left. What is the word? (It’s sixty.)
32.Why is a river very rich? (Because it has two banks.)
33.There are five letters in Li Lei’s name. Then how many letters are there in English? (Seven.)
34.If two cats are before a cat, and two cats are behind a cat, and a cat is in the middle, how many cats are there in all? (Three.)
35.If three cats can kill three rats in three minutes, how long will it take six cats kill six rats? (Three minutes.)
36.A frog is at the bottom of a 20-feet-deep well. Everyday it jumps two feet high in the air. How soon will it jump out of the well? (It can’t jump out.)
37.Three boys sit in a row. Tom sits on the right end. Ted sits on the right of Sam. Who sits on the left end? (Sam.)
38.Judy is 10 and her brother is 12. In how many years will their ages total(一共)38?(In 6 years.)
39.What begins with “T”, ends with “T”, and is full of “T”? (Teapot)
40.Why does summer run faster than winter? (Because people often catch cold.)
41.If everyone loses one, what is it? (Every)
31.Li Ping has milk for breakfast, Wang Tong has bread for breakfast, Wu Ying has rice for breakfast. Wei Fang has the same breakfast as Wang Tong. What dose Wei Fang have for her breakfast? ( Bread )
47.Tim said to Tom, “Give me a dollar, and then I’ll have as much as you.” But Tom said to Tim, “If you give me a dollar, and I’ll have twice as much as you.” How much did each have? (Tim had five dollars; Tom had seven.)
48.Two fathers and two sons are fishing. Everyone catches one fish. But they only take home three fish. Why? (There are only 3 people. One father
is a grandfather so his son is a father and a son.)
50.Two teachers teach at the same school. One is the mother of other’s son. What relation are they to each other? (Husband and wife.)
31.有一个单词第一个字母在bike中,但不在like中;第二个字母在love中,但不在live中;最后一个字母在busy中,但不在bus中。这个单词是什么?(boy)
32.如果他是日本人,那么你用英语叫他什么?(Japanese)
33.如果用数字1—26分别代表英文字母A—Z,那么请你说出8,15,13,5数字合起来代表什么词?(home)
34.如果用数字1—26分别代表英文字母A—Z,那么English一词是由哪七个数字组成?(5、14、7、12、9、19、8)
35.脑筋急转弯:为什么字母T和E都像岛(Why T and E are like
islands)? (Because T is in the middle of water, and E is in the middle of the sea.)
36.脑筋急转弯:你如何把lady变成boy? (将lady中的字母y去掉)
37.脑筋急转弯:人们为什么要go to bed? (因为bed不可能 go themselves.)
38.谜语:什么table可以吃?(vegetable)
39.谜语:When I eat, I live; when drink, I die. 请猜此物是什么?(Fire)
40.脑筋急转弯:眼睛eye的中间是什么?(y)
三 英语判断题
1.新概念英语是美国人编的吗?(No. 英国人编的)
2.Thanksgiving Day(感恩节)起源于澳大利亚吗?(No. 美国)
3.One kilometer和1000 metres是一样长吗?(Yes.)
4.美国人说的英语跟英国人说的英语有区别吗?(Yes.)
5.Washington是一个地名吗?(Yes.)
6.歌曲Do-Re-Mi是加拿大的电影插曲?(No. 是美国的)
7.Northern Ireland(北爱尔兰)属于英国,对吗? (Yes.)
8.Fahter Christmas(圣诞老人)的家乡在美国,对吗?(No. 在土耳其。)
9.本杰明·弗兰克林是美国人,对吗?(Yes.)
10. Yellow dog 指的是卑鄙的人,对吗?(Yes.)
11.美国纽约的别名叫“ the big orange”, 对吗?(No.)
12.马可·波罗来过中国,对吗?(Yes.)
13.英语中的seven除了表示数字7以外,还有很多美丽的传说,对吗?(Yes.)
14.Tom Sowyer 历险记是英国莎士比亚的作品,对吗?(No. 是马克·吐温的作品)
四、知识列举题
1.至少说出三个美国的州名?(答略。)
2.生活中有字母形状的东西,如U形钢管。你能举出个字母形状的事物吗?(S形路线,T血衫,U形车斗,T-square, U-boat等)
3.请说出至少三个美国总统的名字?(布什,克林顿,华盛顿,林肯,肯尼迪,
尼克松)
4.请依次说出英国,美国,日本三个国家的首都。(伦敦,华盛顿,东京)
5.现有字母a,请连续增加三笔,变成三个新单词。(an, any, many或at, ate, late/date/hate/fate/gate或at, hat, hate)
6.现有一个单词eat, 请增加一个字母变成新的单词,至少说出四个新单词。(heat/ seat/ beat/ meat/ neat)
7.现有单词read,请分别加一个字母,减一个字母和换一个字母,变成三个不同的单词