1. Mobile text messaging has become _______ second most popular way of exchanging New Year and Christmas greetings, according to _______ research which is given by the Social Science Institute of Shanghai, China.

A. a; a  B. the; the   C. the; a D. /; the

2. Troubled by a terrible headache, Catherine wondered how she could _______ herself of the bad situation.

A. throw   B. rid  C. move  D. remove

3. Without my glasses, I couldn’t _______ whether that figure on the blackboard was a three or an eight.

A. make out    B. make up    

C. make for   D. make off