Задание на развитие мышления по английскому языку

Контрольная работа для развития мышления. 8 класс

I.Отгадайте загадки:

1) What always ends everything?

2) Some months have thirty days and some months have thirty-one days. How many months have twenty-eight days?
3) When is the best time to have lunch?

4) What teaches without talking?

5) What is it that we often return but never borrow?

6) When is a yellow dog most likely to enter a house?

7) Which one of our Presidents had the largest shoes?

II. Отгадайте шарады

My first is a preposition,
My second is a synonym of "receive",
My whole is the antonym of "remember" ...

My first is what we do when your hands are dirty,
My second is the suffix of Participle I,
My third is the letter that comes after "s",
My fourth is a preposition,
My whole is the capital of a state ... 

My first is what we say when we agree,
My second is the first syllable of the word "terribly",
My  third is the antonym of "night",
My whole is the day before today ...

My first is the indefinite article,
My second is the synonym of "wide"
My whole means "in a foreign country" ...

III. В нескольких известных английских пословицах все гласные кроме "А" были заменены на тире. Найдите недостающие гласные и прочитайте эти мудрые изречения. 

1. A    B-RD    -N   TH-   HAND   -S   W-ORTH   TW-   -N   TH-   B-SH.
2. CHAR-T-   B-G-NS   AT   H-M-.

3. C--NT   -N-'S   CH-CKEN   B-F-R-   TH--   AR-   HATCH-D

4. L-T   SL--P-NG   D-G   L--.

5. -V-R-   D-G   HAS   H-S   DA-.