Read the sentence. Hard work has its rewards.

The events in the passage help to send the message in the sentence above. Select one sentence in the paragraphs below that best states this message.

This shocked me because I did not know that Uncle Sahil almost had quit playing and that he still spent so much time practicing.

The beautiful music did not happen by accident and was the result of hard work.

I decided that I would spend more time practicing because I wanted to be able to play well, and for the next six months, I worked as hard as I could on my music.

I was pleased to find out that the harder I worked, the better I became.

Finally, I was ready to do something that I had dreamed about.

Uncle Sahil and I were going to play a duet together at my piano recital.

As we drove to the auditorium on the night of the recital, the stars winked encouragingly at me.

I smiled back at them and felt proud of what I had accomplished.