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.
John hasn’t studied hard this year; so, in the last couple of months, he has had to work _______ just to catch up.
A.vaguely
B.barely
C.intensely
D.randomly

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Standing on top of the hill, ___________.
A.people have seen a castle far away
B.lies a castle in the middle of the island
C.a castle can be seen from the distance
D.we can see a castle in the distance

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
As we walked past, we saw John _____ his car.
A.to repair
B.repaired
C.in repairing
D.repairing

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Nobody answered the door, _______?
A.weren’t they
B.were they
C.did they
D.didn’t they

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
“Did you have a good time at the Browns?” “Not really. I _______ I’ll ever visit them again.
A.won’t be thinking
B.am not thinking
C.don’t think
D.think not

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
______ in 1939, the Borne Bridge is one of the many grand projects of the Depression era.
A.Completing
B.Completed
C.Complete
D.Completes

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.society
B.epidemic
C.initiate
D.catastrophe

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.whole
B.when
C.which
D.while

The phrase “this evidence” in paragraph 3 refers to __________.
A.the fact that children can control their feelings
B.human facial expressions
C.a biological underpinning for humans to express emotions
D.the fact that children are good at recognizing others’ emotions