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1st end-of-semester question papers for 7th-grade Literature

2024 - 2025 Academic Year 

Test: 7th-grade Literature

Time: 90 minutes

(Excluding distribution time)

(Question paper No. 1)

Part 1: Reading Comprehension (5 points)

Read the following text and answer the questions:

HÀNG QUÀ RONG (STREET VENDORS)

Hanoians, eat every day, but often do not pay attention. If we stay for a while in smaller provinces, or even in Hai Phong, Nam Dinh, then we realize how delicious the street food in Hanoi is. For example, the same bun cha, the same vegetables, the same noodles, but why is Hanoi's bun cha so delicious and flavorful, tasty from the fragrant smell to the delicious dipping sauce. Throughout the day, there is always street food available. Every hour brings a different kind; eating street food is an art: eating at the right hour and choosing the right vendor, that makes one a connoisseur.

At the crack of dawn, the sound of Western pastries is called out, mingled with the sound of street sweeping. These are the snacks for workers going early. Then at certain times, the streets resonate with the calls of "hot fried cakes, fresh from a penny per pair" from a bunch of children. Those stiff and ugly fried cakes indeed lower the prestige of Hanoi street snacks, from some shop intending to profit, wanting people to eat while still sleepy.

Here is the authentic street food: rolled rice pancakes, eaten with fatty pork sausage, or with hot fried tofu. But it must be Thanh Tri rolled rice pancakes thin as paper and as transparent as silk. The pancakes are fragrant, the flour is fine and sticky. Savory pancakes are rich with a bit of scallion oil, while vegetarian pancakes are light and delicate. Thanh Tri pancake vendors carry baskets on their heads, in groups of five or seven, entering the streets from the Pork Market, with graceful and quick steps.

In the heat season, there are porridge and sticky rice stalls: fragrant paste-like rice porridge, sticky rice with a strong aroma of sticky rice. Peanut sticky rice, sesame oil sticky rice, fragrant with oil and coconut. Ah, the sesame oil sticky rice, held in small handfuls, eaten both greasy and nutty. And it’s not expensive at all! One or two pennies are enough. In the cold season, there's hot sticky rice, still steaming like mist, eaten to warm up and satisfy hunger.

And who thinks deeply about the fried shallots in the young sticky corn; crispy and fragrant shallots, fatty corn kernels drizzled with a little clear oil... There are many good sticky corn stalls, but the best and most flavorful is the sticky corn from an old lady in Yen Phu. Every morning, she descends to the streets, following a fixed path, for over twenty years now, so that those who want to eat just send someone to wait. She carries a corn basket, hands tucked into her shirt, and cries out, almost not human-sounding, in a special and strange call: "Eeee...ecc", "Eee...ecc...".

For the women going to the market, the fabric sellers, the vegetable sellers, etc., want snacks that are both cheap and delicious, yet filling - they are discerning, gourmets and critical [...].

These snacks are clean and pure, from the snack to the entire basket, even the vendor herself, hair tied neatly, new brown shirt, dark linen trousers [...].

Rice balls of varying lengths and sizes, laid on a basket covered with a white cloth to keep flies away. The cutting knife, as shiny as water, and the blade cuts smoothly as rock sugar. Each slice of rice is cut, and the vendor carefully trims the outer layer, then cuts into small, square, long pieces to display on a plate. Do you want to eat it with something? Some fresh sausages or silky pork rolls?

The women eat while leisurely chewing gently, and intimately chat with the vendor: all business associates, one carry sustains husband and children, contributions are many. Such is fate, what can we do.

(Thach Lam, NXB Literature, Hanoi, 2004)

Question 1 (1 point): What genre is the text written in? What are the signs that help you recognize that genre?

Question 2 (1 point): According to the author, what makes the "art" of eating street food in Hanoi?

Question 3 (1 point): The sentence: “The cutting knife, as shiny as water, and the blade cuts smoothly as rock sugar.” uses what rhetorical device? State the objectives of that rhetorical device.

Question 4 (2 points): Through which images and sentences is the author's sentiment towards Hanoi's street snacks expressed? Please comment on that sentiment.

Part 2: Script (5 points)

Write an expressive essay about a person or event.