Max, the three headed hydra, got eleven steaks for dinner．The first and third heads ate two steaks each．The second head ate three steaks．How many steaks remained?

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智力竞猜

Frankenstein got sixteen lollipops for his birthday．He had four friends．He gave two lollipops to each friend．He dropped one on the ground and threw it away．He ate four lollipops himself．How many has he left?

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智力竞猜

The ogre had a blanket shop．On Monday, he had fourteen blankets for sale．That day, he sold four blankets．Then on Tuesday, he sold another five blankets．How many were remaining in his shop on Wednesday?

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Write the number that is：

1．Only in the ________

2．Only in the ________

3．Only in the ________

4．Only in the and the ________

5．Only in the and the ________

6．Only in the and the ________

7．In the and the and the ________

双语习题

On a horizontal surface, an object of mass 5 kg moves with uniform velocity of 2 m/s when a force of 4 N is applied．What is its acceleration when the force is increased to 12 N?

脑筋急转弯

1．Which is heavier, milk or cream?

2．What kind of table has no legs?

3．What has a neck but no throat?

4．Use me well, I'm everybody; scratch(涂擦)my back, and I am nobody．What ?am I?

5．What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than yourself?

Quick Wits

1．What is dark but made by light?

2．Why does the sky cry?

3．What did one spider(蜘蛛)say to another spider?

4．What goes up but never comes down?

5．What falls down all the time but never gets hurt?

6．What gets bigger when you take away more from it?

7．What goes around the world and stays in the corner?

8．What can you hold in your left hand but you can never hold in your right hand?

9．Imagine that you are in a box and there is no way to get out; how will you get out?

10．What four letter word reads the same forward, back to the front and upside down?

General Knowledge Quizes

下面一些题考一考大家的一些常识性问题．请在10分钟内完成．

1．What does your heart pump?

2．Which is the nearest star?

3．Which country has the biggest land area?

4．In which ocean is Hawaii?

5．What is the most popular indoor sport in the USA?

6．How many strings does a violin have?

7．Who developed the Theory of Relativity?

8．Which continent has the biggest population?

9．In snooker, what is the colour of the last ball potted?

10．What instrument is used for measuring temperature?

11．Who developed the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?

12．What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?

13．What is awarded to someone who gains third place in an Olympic event?

　　During one of my last visits, a Palestinian officer pointed to a simple table and chair near one of the windows of this bridge．Through this window beyond the town is visible．“Here Abu-Amar likes to sit between meetings and look out, ”he explained．Abu-Amar is the name for Yasser．

　　21 years ago, when I went to Beirut and met him for the first time, he was one of the most mobile leaders in the world, if not the most mobile of all．Once he told me that during the last five days he had visited seven countries, sleeping on the plane between destinations(目的地)．

　　Now he has been imprisoned in the compound(宅邸)for more than two years．For some of the time, the conditions were worse than in an ordinary prison：he lived in a closed room without fresh air and almost without water．He knew that at any moment Sharon’s soldiers could storm in and kill him．In a few days, he will be 74 years old．He will spend his birthday in his prison．

　　He has been on the world stage longer than any other leader, apart from Fidel Castro．Many of today’s world leaders, like Bush and Blair, were infants(幼稚)when he took the responsibility(负责)for the destiny(命运)of the Palestinian people in his hands．

　　His face is well known throughout the world．

　　He is the most hated person in Israel．Rightists and Leftists compete with each other in expressing their hatred of him．There is hardly an article by an Israeli “Leftist”which does not include some words of anger about him．

　　He is the most admired and beloved leader of his own people, and apparently the leader most admired by the masses(群众)throughout the Arab and Muslim world．

　　Not bad for a person who is turning 74．

　　He likes to remind people that he studied engineering．More than once he has corrected me on numbers－how many ultra-religious(极端宗教)members were in the Knesset, exactly what Percentage of the West Bank Sharon has said he was ready to “give”to the Palestinians as part of his “painful concessions(减少)”．

　　His political career started in the Palestinian Students’ Association in Cairo．It seemed Historical significance(意义)when he was the main founder(奠基者), in the late 1950s, of the Fatah organization, the first Palestinian liberation movement since the catastrophe(大灾难)of 1948．

　　In 1994, Arafat won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Israel’s then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin．

［想一想］What do you think we should do for today’s world peace and development?

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