How to make up riddles (谜语)
Riddles are fun to ask and solve. It is a pride to ask a riddle that no one has ever heard before. If you are looking to find such a riddle, it is better to create a riddle yourself.
Decide on your subject.
While sitting to write a riddle, you have to think of the subject first.
You would have seen riddles of three to four words along with those that are long sentences. So, you have to decide the length of your riddle beforehand. Only after this, you can form a riddle that fits in your imagination. You can keep your riddles short or long. However, the listeners should be able to follow the context without any difficulties.
Start with the answer.
Analyse your answer.
Once you have chosen your answer, you have to brainstorm the possible characteristics (特征) of it.
| A．Read some existing riddles. |
| B．Find the length of your riddle. |
| C．The subject does not mean anything complicated (复杂的). |
| D．You can find these riddles online and through apps or movies. |
| E．For example, let us imagine that your answer for the riddle is ice. |
| F．In this article, let us discuss the process of creating one yourself in brief. |
| G．Knowing the answer before forming the question is important in riddle creation. |
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【推荐1】Developing a reading habit is an excellent way to improve your knowledge, expand your vocabulary and reduce stress.
One of the best ways to start a reading habit is to begin with short reading sessions. You can start by setting aside 10-15 minutes a day to read. Gradually increase the duration (持续时间) of your reading sessions.
Setting a reading goal is an excellent way to motivate you to read more and make reading a habit. You can set a goal of reading a certain number of books per month or per year. Additionally, you can set a goal of reading for a specific amount of time each day.
To make reading a habit, it is essential to choose books that interest you. If you don't enjoy the book you are reading, it will be difficult to stay motivated.
| A．Focus on the quality of your reading experience. |
| B．Find a quiet and comfortable space without disturbance. |
| C．To develop a reading habit, you need to make time for it. |
| D．Make sure you are passionate about the topics of the books. |
| E．However, it can be challenging if you seldom read regularly. |
| F．Whatever goal you choose, make sure it is realistic and achievable. |
| G．Starting small will make it easier to include reading in your daily routine. |
【推荐2】You may dislike your job, but due to financial burdens or lack of other job offers, you’re forced to stay where you are.
Identify exactly what it is that’s causing the aversion (厌恶).Is it the mean boss? Is it the overly competitive co-workers? Is there a new and added responsibility that you cannot handle or are not equipped to do well? Make a pros and cons (优缺点) list of your current job related to work environments, co-workers, management and so on.
Make an effort to develop connection.
Focus on the positive.
| A．Be grateful for having a job. |
| B．This will help you sort out a problem. |
| C．Reduce your stress levels outside of work. |
| D．Remember how to carry out your duties well. |
| E．Are you having trouble finding purpose in your work? |
| F．You don’t really dislike everything about your job right now, do you? |
| G．There’re ways to help you determine how to enjoy work when you dislike it. |
【推荐3】How to be successful in school
Success in school is based on your grades as well as the friends you make. Be attentive in class and raise your hand to answer questions. Most students in school are successful, but some aren’t.
Remember you are in school to learn. Study more about the stuff you are learning.
Be polite at all times.
Be sociable. Study is important, but don’t forget your friends because of it.
| A．Smile and be friendly to others. |
| B．If you don’t, you won’t do well in it. |
| C．Popularity is not as important as your future. |
| D．Spare some time for them to hang out or go to a movie. |
| E．Read this article to help yourself become successful. |
| F．How you behave towards others shows your personal quality. |
| G．Understand that not every person you meet wants to become your friend. |
【推荐1】Have you ever seen the scene in which a person is being tested by a polygraph(测谎仪)? Do you think it’s likely to tell if a person is really lying by analyzing his/her handwriting? For ages experts have been analyzing and trying to break the code of handwriting characteristics in order to detect an individual’s personality characters, or in most cases, judge their innocence in the case of a crime. Although this science has often gone the way of pseudoscience(伪科学), researchers are now discovering that with the aid of a computerized tool, handwriting characteristics can be measured more effectively. A study in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that handwriting tests could give polygraphs a challenge for lie detection.
The study was headed by Gil Luria and Sara Rosenblum at the University of Haifa, Israel. The researchers used a computerized tablet that measured the physical properties of the subject’s handwriting, which are difficult to consciously control. They worked with 34 volunteers, who wrote truthful and false paragraphs on paper using a wireless electronic pen with a pressure sensitive tip. A computerized system measured pressure and stroke(笔画) duration, both on the paper and in the air. Spatial(空间的) measures, such as stroke length, height and width were also tracked. And the scientists found significant differences in pressure and spatial measures when an individual was in the process of writing deceptive statements compared with the truth.
“When we lie, our brains work hard to make sure we get the story right and come off as truthful,” said Gil Luria, the leading scientist of the research. “Law enforcement officials try to tap into that effort, for example with polygraphs, to find out if a suspect is telling the truth. But such stress tests are beatable and forbidden in court. In this case, handwriting tests could be a competitor to the familiar, but unreliable lie detector.”
The investigators say they need to affirm this initial result and compare the technique with polygraphs and other lie detection tools. But perhaps in the future even a written claim of innocence could turn out to be a real confession(招供).
1. What is the function of the two questions in the first paragraph?| A．Argument. | B．Conclusion. | C．Introduction. | D．Assumption. |
| A．The cause of the experiment. |
| B．The process of the experiment. |
| C．The result of the experiment. |
| D．The significance of the experiment. |
| A．responsible | B．illegal | C．believable | D．dishonest |
| A．The polygraph has many disadvantages. |
| B．Handwriting-based tool offers alternative lie detection method. |
| C．Computerized tools can distinguish a liar. |
| D．Handwriting-based tool matters a lot in finding a suspect. |
【推荐2】Thanks to research currently being done ih the field of nanotechnology, it may be possible to cure a disease like cancer using tiny particles(微粒) injected into a person — particles that would not only find the cancer, but also destroy it without harming anything else in the body.
The main thing to know about nanotechnology is that it’s small — really small. The prefix nano refers to a nanometer, which is one-billionth of a meter. How small is that exactly? A comma on a page of a book may be more than half a million nanometers wide.
Researcher Ted Sargent, a leader in the field of nanotechnology, describes how using quantum (量子) dots—particles that are a few nanometers in size — will help diagnose a disease. The particles, Sargent explains, shine brightly when exposed to UV light and can be inserted into the body. They can also be programmed to bond only to a particular cancer cell. Doctors can then use a camera and look for the colored particles, which will help them determine where cancer cells are growing in a person’s body. Using this technology, it will be possible to detect cancer at a stage when there are perhaps only a thousand bad cells.
Once a certain type of cancer is detected, nanotechnology will also improve the way it is treated. Nanoparticles will allow doctors to attack cancerous tumors (肿瘤) without disturbing healthy cells. Doctors can deliver cancer-killing drugs, carried via the nanoparticles, to the bad cells only or they can also destroy cancer cells identified by nanoparticles, using laser rays. Ultimately, technologies like this will allow doctors to deliver cancer treatment earlier, faster, and more thoroughly, with fewer side effects.
Unfortunately, though nanoparticles have great medical potential, there are serious concerns that they could have negative environmental and health effects. In recent studies researchers found that half the human cells died after exposing lab-grown human cells to water containing large amounts of nanoparticles.
Because nanotechnology is so potentially useful, many scientists don’t think research into its many uses should be stopped; learning more about nanotechnology should remain a priority. Scientists do believe that governments should allocate more money for safety-related studies—to make sure that large concentrations of nanoparticles do not get into our food and water supplies and cause serious problems.
1. What is this passage mainly about?| A．The dangers and side effects of nanotechnology. |
| B．The various ways of detecting different cancers. |
| C．The development and application of nanotechnology. |
| D．How nanotechnology can be used in medical science. |
| A．The size of a comma. | B．One-billionth of a meter. |
| C．A billion nanoparticles wide. | D．The same size as a quantum dot. |
| A．does not have any influences | B．may prevent many side effects |
| C．causes one second cells’ death | D．could cure a variety of cancers |
| A．Nanotechnology proved to be useless and the research should be ended. |
| B．Scientists want to see research into nanotechnology continue with caution. |
| C．Many scientists think that nanotechnology is too dangerous to be permitted. |
| D．Nanotechnology is so useful that many governments are investing in research. |
【推荐3】How much time do you spend doing research before you make a decision? The answer for many of us, it turns out, is “hardly any”, even with major investments. In our research, we found people who tend to make such “jumps” in their inference may pay a wide range of costs.
We worked with more than 600 people from the general population. We used a thinking game. In this game, players encountered someone fishing from one of two lakes: in one lake, most of the fish were red, and in the other, most were gray. The fisher would catch one fish at a time and stop only when players thought they could say which lake was being fished. Some players had to see many fish before making a decision. Others, the jumpers, stopped after only one or two.
We also asked participants questions to learn more about their other thinking patterns. We found that the fewer fish a player needed to see, the more errors individuals made in other beliefs, inferences and decisions. For instance, the earlier a person jumped, the more likely they were to endorse false theories, such as the idea that the Apollo moon landings had been a lie.
Psychological researchers commonly distinguish between two pathways of thought: System 1 reflects ideas that come to the mind without effort. System 2 is about conscious and effortful reasoning that is analytic and mindful.
We found that jumpers and nonjumpers are equally affected by automatic System 1. The jumpers, however, do not engage in controlled System 2 reasoning to the same degree as nonjumpers.
To solve this, we adopted a method called metacognitive (元认知) training(MCT)and created an online version where participants face their own biases (偏见). For example, people tackle puzzles, and after they make mistakes related to specific biases, these errors are called out so that the participants can learn about the missteps and other ways of thinking through the problem at hand.
1. What did the researchers find?| A．Jumpers behave and think abnormally. |
| B．Jumpers show many kinds of thinking errors. |
| C．People research a lot before making decisions. |
| D．People who hesitate a lot tend to jump to conclusions. |
| A．By analyzing data. | B．By carrying out interviews. |
| C．By making comparison. | D．By consulting other studies. |
| A．Support. | B．Teach. | C．Test. | D．Reject. |
| A．Nonjumpers often skip System 1. | B．Jumpers can be trained to think twice. |
| C．Nonjumpers are good at tackling puzzles. | D．Jumpers are weak in reasoning and analyzing. |
