外国语学院趣味英语大赛初赛试题

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1.what two words have thousands of letters in them?

2.How many sides does a house have?

3.There are how many countries in the world?

4. What has teeth but cannot eat?

5. What animal eats and drinks with its tail?

6. why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor?

7. what starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?

8. where can happiness always be found?

9. How many great men have been born in London?

10.what is higher without a head than with a head?

11.I have many leaves.But I am not a bloom and not a tree.You can see me everyday.What am I?

12.Where can milk be best stored?

13.Where is Olympic Games’ birthplace?

14.How many minutes is it before 12 noon,if 48 minutes ago it was twice as many minute past 9 am?

15.”Speak like a book.”means

二、判断题

2. The Commonwealth of Nations is a free association of independent countries that all used to be colonies of Britain.

3.The Mississipi River is the longest river in America.

4.Massachustes Institute of Technology (MIT) is a famous university in the U.K. 

5.Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

6.Shakespeare's Four Tragedies include Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,As you like it.

7.The capital city of America is New York.

8.The two ruling parties in the U.K. are the Conservative Party and the Labor Party.

9.Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen.

10.The Industrial Revolution took root in France in the 18th century.

1.The square of 3 is equal to  (  ).

2.There are ( ) integers(整数) greater than -2.1 and less than 1.

3.In the 50 bottles of drinks, 10 are unqualified. What is the qualification rate（ ）？（请用百分数作答）

4. X = 5 is the solution to the equation ax- 3 =12, so the solution to the equation ay + 4 = 25.

5.The number is two, seven, seven, eight, nine, five balls, and if you take two of them, the probability that they add up to an even number is（ ）（请用百分数作答）

三、翻译

2.物以类聚，人以群分

3.遗臭万年

4.海纳百川

5.公事公办

(二）英翻中

2.The friendship between gentlemen is as light water.

3.On seeing a man of virtue,try to become his equal;on seeing a man without virtue,examing yourself not to have the same defects.

4.The past of time is just like the flow of water, which goes on day and night. 

5.If love between both sides can last forever,why need they stay together night and day?

四、附加题

"Emotion pack" （表情包）is a pop formed after social software is active,which is often used in our daily life. What wil you think about when you see the following funny emotion pack? 

Please write down your feeling in one sentence .