1.英语推理小故事

The Mystery of the Palm-leaf Fan （神秘的芭蕉扇）How many palm-leaf fans were there in the book "Journey to the West"? This has been a mystery. I personally think there were two, one held by the Supreme Lord Laozi and the other one by the Iron Fan Princess. Reasons are as following: 1. See Chapter 59 – Tang Sanzang Is Stopped by the Flaming Mountain, Sun Wukong tries to borrow the Palm-Leaf Fan Lingji smiled: “That woman is called Luosha, also named the Iron Fan Princess. Her Palm-leaf fan was a treasure from the beginning of time, born from Heaven and Earth on the heights of Mt Kunlun. It contains the essence of the sun, so it can extinguish fire. However if a human is fanned, he would be blown away for eighty-four thousand li's, unable to stop. There are only fifty thousand li's from my mountain to the Flaming Mountain. It is fortunate you have the ability to stall clouds. An ordinary person would not have been able to stop.” This explains the Fan's main function is to extinguish fire, and nothing else! Fanning people is not its main function, hence proving this fan truly belongs to the Iron Fan Princess. 2. Chapter 52 – Wukong upstages Jindou Cave, Buddha hints at his master Lord Laozi: “My Golden Bracelet is what I used to become an immortal when I passed the Han Gate. I made this treasure when I was a youth. No matter what weapon you may have, or fire and water, none can go near it. Even I will not be able to help you if my Palm-leaf Fan was stolen from me.” This except shows that the Supreme Lord Laozi had one as well, used to capture weapons. He believes it is even stronger than his Golden Bracelet. 3. If the Fan was the one belonging to Lord Laozi, the Iron Fan Princess would have no reason to fear the heavenly soldiers, she would have the ability to take care of Sun Wukong her self, there would be no need to let her husband the Bull Monster risk his life to fight Sun Wukong. 4. Treasures from heaven basically have two types of resting places. At the end of the book, they must be returned to their owners. But the Palm-leaf Fan was returned to another. 5. If the Fan had belonged to Lord Laozi, only Buddha would have the ability to capture the monsters. However it was Prince Ne Zha who captured the Bull Monster in the book. Therefore I believe there were two Palm-Leaf Fans in "Journey to the West", two fans with completely different functions！ 建议还是自己学着翻译，不行的话，可以借助翻译软件翻译一下，这对提高英语有帮助的。

2.英语数学题和英语智力题

What has two legs but cann't walk?compass 圆规 1.From what number can you take half and leave nothing? 2.what two word have thousands of letters in them? 3.what 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away? 4.what kind of dog never bite? 5.where does afternoon always come before morning? 6what is pronounced like one letter,written with three letters,and belongs to all animals? 7.what number gets bigger when you turn it upside down? 1,8 2,dictionary 3,sixth 4,hotdog 5,nowhere 6,eye 7,6 ____ is greater than God. ____ is more evil than the Devil. The poor have ____. The rich need ____. If you eat ____, you will die. Yes, the key is " nothing" . Nothing is greater than God. Nothing is more evil than the Devil. The poor have nothing. The rich need nothing. If you eat nothing, you will die. 1.You can't do it.You can turn to Ann for help. (ask) 2.There are a hundred and one books in this small room. (a lot of) 3.He has a family of three. (There are three people in his family) 4.----All right. Let me do it. -----That's the boy! (Good boy!) 5.Oh,the two young men my boys. They look the same. 1、In Albert's class,the ratio（比率）of students who prefer soccer to football is 4 to 3.If there are 35 students in the class,how many prefer soccer? 2、What day is two days before the day immediately following the day three days before the day two days after the day immediately before Friday? 3、Look at the sequence（顺序）of the three words.Write the fourth word to complete the set. Example MAIM ARK AIM MARK PLEASE LIGHT LEASE ( ) 4、What number should replace（代替）the question mark? AVIATOR=6 FIXTURE=9 WIZARD=1 DIVERSE=? 5、Arsenal,Manchester,Liverpool and Tottenham are four football teams.Each team is playing against one of others on the next three Saturdays-a different one each time. On Saturday the 12th,Arsenal are playing against Manchester. Manchester are playing against Tottenham on the 19th. Who is playing against who on the 26th? 1、It's a simple（简单的）sum（算术题）.Can you work out which （ 哪一个）number is represented（代表）by the letter O and which is represented by the K? K K + K _________________ O K 2、What belongs to （仅属于）you but is used more by others than yourself（ 但是别人用得比较多）？ 3、（1） 联合国的英文缩写： （2） 中华人民共和国的英文缩写： （3） 英国的英文缩写： （4） 美国的英文缩写： 1.K:5 O:1 2.name 3.(1)UN (2)PRC (3)UK (4)U.S.A. 1. Why are giraffes the cheapest to feed? 2. Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe? 3. Why is the pig always eating? 4. Why are politicians no longer concerned with snowball fights? 5. Why don't women get bald as soon as men? 6. What can pierce one's ears without a hole? 7. What's the longest word in the world? 8. Why does time fly? 9. Where can a dog get another tail? Keys: 1. They make a little food go a long way. 2. They don't want to be hot-dog. 3. He's making a hog of himself. 4、The cold war is over. 5、Because women wear hire longer. 6、Noice. 7. Smiles. Because there's a mile between the letter 's'. 8. To get away from all those who are trying to kill it. 9. At a retail store. IQ题在整套试卷中虽然只占5分，但5分的得失却可以使芸芸考生拉开距离，因为人们常说，“考试多一分，压倒一个军”。

正如普通智力题一样，英语智力题也是有规律的；但与普通智力题不同，英语智力题必须运用已有的英语知识解决同样或类似的问题。为了帮助考生在做英语智力题时心中有数、胸有成竹，现结合具体考例，就英语IQ题及其解题策略作如下归纳。

一、常识题 这类考题一般都应从生活常识的角度去分析和考虑，并不需要作高深的探究，但也不能被牵着鼻子走。例如：How long does it take to boil two eggs if it takes four and a half minutes to boil one egg？不少考生的答案是：Nine minutes. 理由是煮一个鸡蛋要4.5分钟，2个鸡蛋则需9分钟。

其实，2个鸡蛋一起煮也是4.5分钟。像这种简单的生活常识题，考生不能让人牵着鼻子走，否则因把简单的题目看得过于复杂而丢分就太可惜了。

又如：How many angles （角） are left if one angle is cut from a square （方形的） table？ 此题答案是：Five (angles). 但有同学回答：Three (angles). 根据常识一张方形桌子，切去一个角，应该有5个角，而不是4 - 1 = 3。二、语言知识题 这类题常常是考查考生的语言知识和应变能力，有时要从句子本身或字形上分析，有时还涉及会意。

如：What is the distance between the first letter and the last letter of “smiles”？ 此题答案是：One mile. 问的是smiles这个单词中，第一个字母和最后一个字母之间的距离有多长，即除去第一个和最后一个字母s，剩下的是mile。又如：What appears once in every minute, twice in every moment, but not once in 。

3.英文逻辑推理题

不知道你想要什么类型的。

我有几篇阅读的推理题1. Nearly one in three subscribers to Financial Forecaster is a millionaire, and over half are in top management. Shouldn't you subscribe to Financial Forecaster now?A reader who is neither a millionaire nor in top management would be most likely to act in accordance with the advertisement's suggestion if he or she drew which of the following questionable conclusions invited by the advertisement? (A) Among finance-related periodicals. Financial Forecaster provides the most detailed financial information. (B) Top managers cannot do their jobs properly without reading Financial Forecaster. (C) The advertisement is placed where those who will be likely to read it are millionaires. (D) The subscribers mentioned were helped to become millionaires or join top management by reading Financial Forecaster. (E) only those who will in fact become millionaires, or at least top managers, will read the advertisement.Questions 2-3 are based on the following. Contrary to the charges made by some of its opponents, the provisions of the new deficit-reduction law for indiscriminate cuts in the federal budget are justified. Opponents should remember that the New Deal pulled this country out of great economic troubles even though some of its programs were later found to be unconstitutional.2. The author's method of attacking the charges of certain opponents of the new deficit-reduction law is to (A) attack the character of the opponents rather than their claim (B) imply an analogy between the law and some New Deal programs (C) point out that the opponents' claims imply a dilemma (D) show that the opponents' reasoning leads to an absurd conclusion (E) show that the New Deal also called for indiscriminate cuts in the federal budget3. The opponents could effectively defend their position against the author's strategy by pointing out that (A) the expertise of those opposing the law is outstanding (B) the lack of justification for the new law does not imply that those who drew it up were either inept or immoral (C) the practical application of the new law will not entail indiscriminate budget cuts (D) economic troubles present at the time of the New Deal were equal in severity to those that have led to the present law (E) the fact that certain flawed programs or laws have improved the economy does not prove that every such program can do so4. In Millington, a city of 50,000 people, Mercedes Pedrosa, a realtor, calculated that a family with Millington's median family income, $28,000 a year, could afford to buy Millington's median-priced $77,000 house. This calculation was based on an 11.2 percent mortgage interest rate and on the realtor's assumption that a family could only afford to pay up to 25 percent of its income for housing. Which of the following corrections of a figure appearing in the passage above, if it were the only correction that needed to be made, would yield a new calculation showing that even incomes below the median family income would enable families in Millington to afford Millington's median-priced house? (A) Millington's total population was 45,000 people. (B) Millington's median annual family income was $27,000. (C) Millington's median-priced house cost $80,000. (D) The rate at which people in Millington had to pay mortgage interest was only 10 percent. (E) Families in Millington could only afford to pay up to 22 percent of their annual income for housing.5. Psychological research indicates that college hockey and football players are more quickly moved to hostility and aggression than are college athletes in noncontact sports such as swimming. But the researchers' conclusion—that contact sports encourage and teach participants to be hostile and aggressive—is untenable. The football and hockey players were probably more hostile and aggressive to start with than the swimmers. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion drawn by the psychological researchers? (A) The football and hockey players became more hostile and aggressive during the season and remained so during the off-season, whereas there was no increase in aggressiveness among the swimmers. (B) The football and hockey players, but not the swimmers, were aware at the start of the experiment that they were being tested for aggressiveness. (C) The same psychological research indicated that the football and hockey players had a great respect for cooperation and team play, whereas the swimmers were most concerned with excelling as individual competitors. (D) The research studies were 。