Read the Paragraph Below and Answer the Questions That Follow

question 42

Multiple Choice

Read the paragraph below and answer the questions that follow.
(1) We rarely get tired when we are doing something interesting and exciting. (2) For example, I recently took a vacation in the Canadian Rockies up around Lake Louise. (3) I spent several days trout fishing along Coral Creek, fighting my way through brush higher than my head, stumbling over logs, struggling through fallen timber ⎯ yet after eight hours of this, I was not exhausted. (4) Why? (5) Because I was excited, exhilarated. (6) I had a sense of high achievement: six cutthroat trout.
- Chapter 4, "How to Banish the Boredom that Produces Fatigue, Worry, and  Resentment," from Dale Carnegie's How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job , Simon and Schuster, 1990.
Select the number of the topic sentence in the paragraph above.

• A) Sentence 1
• B) Sentence 2
• C) Sentence 3

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