【明報專訊】Just as the Smarties are puzzling about the egg, Eason suddenly bursts it from the inside and surprises everyone!

Easter is an important holiday of Christianity that celebrates Jesus Christ's resurrection from death. Eggs symbolise new life, fertility and rebirth in many cultures. Easter egg hunt is a traditional Easter activity that remains popular, as is Easter egg rolling. Typical Easter foods like chocolate eggs and bunnies are sold in all parts of the world.

Next Easter the first family of the United States will host the 138th annual White House Easter Egg Roll. A White House Easter Egg Roll is a race in which children roll decorated hard-boiled eggs with a long spoon rather than by hand across the lawn in the White House. Apart from the traditional egg roll, games and storytelling will also be featured. Over 35,000 people are going to take part in those events.

■Mission 1

Be creative and colour the Easter egg!

■Mission 2

Easter is also celebrated in Hong Kong! Complete the following paragraph about an upcoming Easter event with suitable modal verbs. You may use each word more than once.

can / may / must / will

Park Central (將軍澳中心) is to host its annual Easter event on 25 March. It is a competition in which participants 1. ________ throw a home-made device which 2. ________ carry and protect a raw egg. In addition to that, since the aim of this year's event is to help Hong Kong citizens to de-stress, participants 3. ________ dress up as what 4. ________ represent happiness. Judges 5. ________ pick the winner based on the condition of the eggs, the size and appearance of the devices and the creativity of the participants' costumes.

(answers on next text)

■Mission 3

There is a strange pattern on the Easter egg. Can you fill the numbers 0 to 9 into the nine small circles on the three big circles so that the numbers on the circumference (圓周) of each big circle add up to 20? One circle has been filled for you.

■English highway﹕-words and collocations

symbolise

To symbolise something is to be a symbol of it.

e.g. The flower in this poem symbolises the poet's love.

■Key words

Christianity 基督教

White House 白宮

■Glossary

burst (v) 使破裂

resurrection (n) 復活

fertility (n) 生育能力

typical (adj) 典型的

hard-boiled eggs (n phr) 全熟水煮蛋

upcoming (adj) 即將到來的

de-stress (v) 減壓

appearance (n) 外觀