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Reading Comprehension
Read the following two texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
Easter Eggs
Most English holidays have a religion origin. Easter is originally the day to commemorate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. But now for most people, Easter is a secular spring holiday, when everyone hopes to enjoy fine weather, when the days are lengthening fast, when trees are already in bud and leaf, and spring flowers appear, the most welcome of the year-violets and primroses, daffodils and narcissi. For children, Easter means, more than anything else, Easter eggs or chocolate eggs.
Real, natural eggs do not belong to course to single season of the year. They are eaten all the year round (Duck eggs are a rarity in England, and the eggs of smaller birds are rarer still, a luxury for the very rich and privileged). Eggs are everyday food-inexpensive, nutritious, and especially good for breakfast. Their association with spring, when hens begin to lay after the winter, is older than the manufacture of chocolate eggs. In some places, real eggs are used in an Easter game called “egg rolling”. They are first hardboiled and then given to competitors to roll down a slope. The winner is the person whose egg gets to the bottom first. In some families, the breakfast eggs in Easter Sunday morning are boiled in several pans, each containing a different vegetable dye, so that when they are served the shells are no longer white or pale brown in color, but yellow or pink, blue or green. The dyes do not penetrate the shell of course.
Most British children would be very disappointed if there were the only eggs they had at Easter. Chocolate Easter eggs are displayed in confectioners’ shops as soon as Christmas is over. The smallest and simplest are inexpensive enough for children to buy with pocket money. These are of two sorts. Very small ones, perhaps a little longer than an inch in length, are coated thinly with chocolate in the outside and filled with sweet, soft paste, called fondant. They are wrapped in colored foil in a variety of patterns. Slightly larger eggs, a little bigger, as a rule, than a duck’s egg, are hollow. There is nothing inside at all-just a wrapped chocolate shell. You break the shell and eat the jagged, irregular pieces.
1. Easter is originally the day to____.
A. mark the beginning of the spring.
B. remember the rebirth of Jesus Christ.
C. sell chocolate eggs.
D. be enjoyed only by British children.
2. You can not eat ___ all the year round.
A. real natural eggs
B. duck eggs
C. the eggs of smaller birds
D. both B &C
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