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
3. How do the Easter eggs become colorful?
A. The eggs are boiled in several pans.
B. put different vegetables into different pans.
C. Use dyes which do not penetrate the shell.
D. Both B&C
4. Confectionery begins to sell Easter sweets____.
A. when Easter starts.
B. as soon as Christmas is over
C. in spring
D. all the year round
5. What do the jagged pieces refer to?
A. It refers to the chocolate shells of the eggs.
B. It refers to the duck eggs.
C. It refers to the sweet soft pastes.
D. It refers to varieties of patterns.
解析：
1. B
A標志著春天的開始，并不是它的起源。而只是后來人們賦予它的一個特征。C賣巧克力蛋只是商家在這一天賺錢的途徑，最初這一天并不賣巧克力蛋。D小孩字們盡情地享受著復活節(jié)帶給他們的快樂，但這同樣不是復活節(jié)最初的功能。
2. D
第二段開頭部分說，你一年到頭都可以吃到普通的雞蛋，但是在英國鴨蛋和小鳥蛋卻是稀罕的東西。只有那些富人和享有特權(quán)的人才可以吃得到，所以在一年當中，你吃不到的蛋就是鴨蛋和小鳥蛋。
3. D
復活節(jié)蛋怎么才能變得五顏六色呢?在文章的第二段末尾，作者告訴我們， 英國人在復活節(jié)這一天，把雞蛋放在幾個盤子里煮，這些盤子里面都裝有不同的蔬菜顏料，取出后 就得到了彩色的復活節(jié)蛋。
4. B
文章第三段說，圣誕節(jié)一結(jié)束，糖果店就把巧克力作的復活節(jié)蛋擺了出來，也就是說圣誕節(jié)一過完，糖果店就開始賣復活節(jié)彩蛋了。
5. A
jagged的意思是“齒狀的”。文章的最后一段說有一種巧克力蛋是中空的,比鴨蛋還大,吃的時候要把它打碎，然后就可以吃那些齒狀的，不規(guī)則的一片片蛋殼，所以 jagged pieces指的是巧克力蛋的殼。
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
3. How do the Easter eggs become colorful?
A. The eggs are boiled in several pans.
B. put different vegetables into different pans.
C. Use dyes which do not penetrate the shell.
D. Both B&C
4. Confectionery begins to sell Easter sweets____.
A. when Easter starts.
B. as soon as Christmas is over
C. in spring
D. all the year round
5. What do the jagged pieces refer to?
A. It refers to the chocolate shells of the eggs.
B. It refers to the duck eggs.
C. It refers to the sweet soft pastes.
D. It refers to varieties of patterns.
解析：
1. B
A標志著春天的開始，并不是它的起源。而只是后來人們賦予它的一個特征。C賣巧克力蛋只是商家在這一天賺錢的途徑，最初這一天并不賣巧克力蛋。D小孩字們盡情地享受著復活節(jié)帶給他們的快樂，但這同樣不是復活節(jié)最初的功能。
2. D
第二段開頭部分說，你一年到頭都可以吃到普通的雞蛋，但是在英國鴨蛋和小鳥蛋卻是稀罕的東西。只有那些富人和享有特權(quán)的人才可以吃得到，所以在一年當中，你吃不到的蛋就是鴨蛋和小鳥蛋。
3. D
復活節(jié)蛋怎么才能變得五顏六色呢?在文章的第二段末尾，作者告訴我們， 英國人在復活節(jié)這一天，把雞蛋放在幾個盤子里煮，這些盤子里面都裝有不同的蔬菜顏料，取出后 就得到了彩色的復活節(jié)蛋。
4. B
文章第三段說，圣誕節(jié)一結(jié)束，糖果店就把巧克力作的復活節(jié)蛋擺了出來，也就是說圣誕節(jié)一過完，糖果店就開始賣復活節(jié)彩蛋了。
5. A
jagged的意思是“齒狀的”。文章的最后一段說有一種巧克力蛋是中空的,比鴨蛋還大,吃的時候要把它打碎，然后就可以吃那些齒狀的，不規(guī)則的一片片蛋殼，所以 jagged pieces指的是巧克力蛋的殼。