Thereonce was a little boy who had a bad temper ( 脾气). His father gave him a bag-组卷网

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There once was a little boy who had a bad temper ( 脾气). His father gave him a bag of nails (钉子) and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the wall.

The first day the boy knocked 17 nails into the wall. Then he knocked two fewer new ones the next day. Over the next few weeks, when he learned to control his anger, the number of nails he knocked into the wall reduced. He found it was easier to hold his temper than to knock those nails into the wall.

In the end, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father asked the boy to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was at last able to tell his father that he pulled all the nails out. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the wall. He said, “Well done, but look at the holes in the wall. The wall will never be the same. When you say things in anger, you hurt a person with your words. No matter how many times you say sorry, the hurt is still there in his heart.”

The little boy then understood how powerful his words were. He looked up at his father and said, “I am really sorry for the holes I put in you and others.”

【小题1】The underlined word “reduced” in Paragraph 2 means getting ________.

A．better

B．worse

C．larger

D．smaller

【小题2】What did the father ask the boy to do when he lost his temper?