( John and Mark are having lunch in the school
canteen.)
John : I just heard a very good riddle
yesterday. Do you want to hear it ?
Mark : I love riddles. Try me.
John : Listen carefully. Romeo and Juliet
are dead on the floor, ___1___
shattered glass and spilt water all ___2___
them. A man lies unconscious, ___3___
not dead like Romeo and Juliet, in the ___4___
room. There are no
___5___ , such as knives ___6___
guns around in the room. Now, ___7___
me who killed who and how he or she ___8___
it.
Mark : (thinking ___9___
hard that his forehead ___10___
furrowed) Let's see ... the man poisoned ___11___
Romeo and Juliet and he ___12___
was poisoned too.
John : What an imagination you ___13___
! But the answer is no.
Mark : (after a long time) I give ___14___
. What happened ?
John : Romeo and Juliet are fishes. The
man, ___15___
was drunk, had walked right ___16___
the fish tank, knocking it ___17___
and breaking the glass ___18___
the aquarium. He himself ___19___
unconscious when he slipped and ___20___,
hitting his head.
Mark : Fishes ! That was unfair.
John : Ha ! Ha ! Ha !
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