Fill in the Blanks Bad temper- reading activityOnline version Read the story and complete the blanks with the correct words by Miguel Ángel Moreno Chávez 1 son same down scar sorry nails pull temper time control 37 nail anger gone There once was a little boy who had a bad . His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every he lost his temper , he must hammer a into the back of the fence . The first day , the boy had driven nails into the fence . Over the next few weeks , as he learned to his anger , the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled . He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those into the fence . Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all . He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper . The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were . The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence . He said , " You have done well , my , but look at the holes in the fence . The fence will never be the . When you say things in , they leave a just like this one . You can put a knife in a man and draw it out . It won't matter how many times you say I'm . The wound is still there . "
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