Question

When you don’t have anything planned for the day or it’s rainy outside and your children are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.
Riddles have been a pastime for centuries. Not only have riddles been something for passing the time, but they have also been used to pass on secret information during the Second World War. Even the ancient Greeks used riddles. They would tell riddles at parties and whoever was the first to get them right would receive prize.
Most riddles use words that have double meanings or share the same sound like “hear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.
If you are looking to tell riddles but don’t know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local bookstore, where you will be able to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. You can even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your own riddles.
After you have found some resources that have different riddles, you will need to read through them to find the right ones for you and your family: You will also need to make sure that your kids will have a chance to figure out the answers. So take your time and choose the right family riddles to tell.
【小題1】What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A．To recommend an interesting family activity.

B．To stress the importance of family activities.

C．To encourage children to read more books.

D．To introduce the history of riddles.

【小題2】From the text we know that riddles _______.

A．do not have enough clues	B．have a very long history
C．were used in World War One	D．were first used in ancient Rome

【小題3】In Paragraph 3, the author mainly ________.

A．discusses how riddles are created

B．explains why fiddles are interesting

C．tells people how to solve riddles

D．shows the benefits of telling riddles

【小題4】To collect riddles, the author suggests ________.

A．one way

B．two ways

C．three ways

D．four ways

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】B
【小題3】C
【小題4】B

解析試題分析：【文章大意】本文是一篇說明文。文章介紹了一種好的家庭活動——猜謎語。文章從謎語的歷史，猜謎語的方法；收集謎語的途徑以及如何選擇合適的家庭謎語等方面介紹了謎語。
【小題1】A考查作者的寫作目的。國家文章第一段中的Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.可知，猜謎語使全家大笑，有時苦思冥想才能找到答案。所以這種活動很有好處。這就是作者的寫作目的。故選A。
【小題2】B考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章第二段中的Riddles have been a pastime for centuries.可知，謎語已經(jīng)有好幾個世紀(jì)的歷史，故選B。A錯是因為謎語有充足的線索；C錯在謎語在二戰(zhàn)使用不是一戰(zhàn)；D錯在古代希臘使用謎語，但也沒說是首先使用，更不是羅馬。
【小題3】C考查段落的主旨要義。根據(jù)文章第三段中的So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but that doesn’t mean that the clues have to be easy.可知，這里作者在告訴讀者如何猜測謎語。故選C。
【小題4】B考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)文章第四段可知，作者給出了兩個收集謎語的方法：一、上網(wǎng)查找；二、到書店找。故選B。
考點：考查說明文的閱讀理解。