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Test: HSPT Reading
| 1. | Although most people have found great happiness in their work, it is common wisdom that such satisfaction is ultimately fleeting. Most adults encourage their children to have an excellent work ethic, and perhaps this moral education has led many to equate happiness with success in employment. Still, it is certain that almost all people realize at some point that this original outlook is limited and needs to be outgrown if one is to find true happiness. Which of the following sentences best concludes the paragraph in keeping with its main idea? |
If this realization does not come naturally in the process of personal growth, it almost inevitably occurs in the form of the so-called "midlife crisis," which often happens when a person realizes that a new outlook is necessary if the rest of his or her life is to have true meaning.
It is amazing that most people are so misinformed that they do not realize this fact sooner; however, people are very self-deceptive when you come to think about it.
When they realize that they have been so misled, people rightfully are angry at their parents, who should have known better and not led them to hold such a foolish and psychologically damaging belief.
At the end of the day, we all should not obsess so much about our work. We will all have to face death anyway and should just try to get by.
When people realize that their work has been meaningless, this inspires a great deal of depression and often ends in wasted years of anxiety and stress over nothing.
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