Answer
Readers would most likely connect this excerpt to their lives by relating to wanting to make their parents proud.
- Stubbornness is a synonym for Obstinately
Both of them mean an unwillingness to conform to a certain opinion or persuasion
- Determination is a synonym for resolution that cannot be swayed
Both of them meant a stance that a person gonna do a certain things and would not stop until it's achieved
- Greediness is a synonym for Avaricious
Both mean intense/selfish desire to obtain wealth or power by their own.
- And Stinginess is a synonym of Parsimonious
Both mean unwillingness to share their wealth or power to other people
B. is the correct sentence, because they use the correct verb tense of notices.