Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
My New Year’s _______ this year is to spend less time on Facebook and more time on my schoolwork. But I’m not sure I will keep it.
A.resolution
B.salutation
C.wish
D.pray

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
It is stated that we are now in the first stages of a battle for the _______ of life on the earth.
A.responsibility
B.reservation
C.sustainability
D.purification

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
If you’re lonely, you should go out and try to _______ a friendship with someone you like.
A.take up
B.break up
C.hold up
D.strike up

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees.
A.A
B.An
C.The
D.Some

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Mr. Paulson has three daughters of _______ age, which concerns him much.
A.married
B.marriageable
C.marrying
D.unmarried

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
In some parts of the country, prices are _______ than in others.
A.the highest
B.highest
C.higher and higher
D.more and more high

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
_______ ten minutes earlier, you would have got a better seat.
A.Had you arrived
B.If you arrived
C.Were you arrived
D.If you hadn’t arrived

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
A.identity
B.final
C.applicant
D.decide

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
A.enroll
B.promote
C.require
D.danger

Her outgoing character contrasts _______with that of her sister's.
A.fully
B.sharply
C.thoroughly
D.coolly