19. The president’s compassion for the refugees caused him to admit a very large number of them.
A. friendship B. respect C. sympathy D. hostility
Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to
indicate the correct word or phrase that best completes each blank line.
There was once a young boy who had difficulty (20) __________ his temper. When he became angry, he would
just say anything that came to his mind and hurt people. Hence, his father gave him a bag of nails and a hammer and
said, “(21) __________ you get angry, hammer one nail into the fence in our backyard”.
The first few days the boy hammered (22) __________ nails that he emptied half the bag. Over the weeks, the
number of nails he hammered to the fence reduced and gradually, his temper was much in control. Then came a day
when he didn’t (23) __________ his temper at all. His father asked him to remove one nail each day so that he
could always manage to keep calm.
Finally, on the day the child was removing the last nail, his father said, “You have done well, boy. But do you see
the holes in the wall? The fence is never going to be the same, even after repainting. (24) __________, when you
say mean things in anger, you will leave a scar in the person’s mind, as the nails did to the fence”.
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