英语竞赛智力题含答案(3)

55.Suppose half the people on a bus exit at each stop and no additional passengers board the bus. If on the third stop the next to last person exits the bus, then how many people were on the bus ?

20 - 16 - 8 - 4

答案是8，这是一道简单的算术题，我们用2x2x2就能得到答案，最先车上有8位乘客。

英语竞赛智力题含答案

56.The Dead Sea is the lowest point in Asia. What's the lowest place among all continents?

Africa - Antarctica - North - America - South - America

答案是Antarctica（南极洲），南极洲的Bentley谷海拔为海平面以下8,325英尺，是全世界各大洲的最低点。

57.The sum of two digits of a two digit number is 12 and the ten's digit

is one-third the unit's digit. What is the number?

93 - 54 - 48 - 39

答案是39.组成39的两个数字分别是3和9，而其中十位数3又正好是各位数9的三分之一，因此应该选择39。

58.What is the next number in the following sequence:1 2 3 5 8 13 ?

17 - 18 - 19 - 21

答案是21，该序列中的每一个数字都是前两个数字的和，最后两个数字是8和13，因此下一个数字就应该是8+13，选21。

59.Choose the word most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized word. FACILITATE?

appease - expedite - foil - precipitate

答案是foil（阻碍），facilitate意为促进，因此各单词中只有foil（阻碍）与它意思相反。

60.What is the next number?

65536, 256, 16,?

答案是4，数列中的规律是前一个数是后一个数的平方，下一个数应该是16的平方根，所以是4。

61. In the winter __________ do not fly south.

ducks - geese - sparrows - swallows

英语竞赛智力题含答案

答案是sparrows（麻雀），duck（野鸭）、geese（鹅）和swallow（燕子）都是候鸟，只有sparrows（麻雀）能够扛得住冬天的寒冷，不用飞到南方去。