Asked by jyf

Read the following implied thesis statement:

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

Which choice below is the most effective supporting topic sentence for a paragraph in this essay?


There aren’t many themes more common in children’s literature than the idea that persistence makes dreams come true.


Winston Churchill said that “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”


Charles Darwin went to medical school but realized that surgeries made him woozy, switched to theology only to discover it bored him, and finally tried natural science and found his calling.


The first time I tried to do a chin-up, I just hung there, whimpering, but I kept working out and eventually I did it!

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Charles Darwin went to medical school but realized that surgeries made him woozy, switched to theology only to discover it bored him, and finally tried natural science and found his calling.

Reason: this sentence gives a specific, concrete example of learning through failed attempts and fits well as a topic sentence introducing a paragraph that supports the thesis.