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Bullying among school children is nothing new. Yet for young people today, there is a relatively new form of bullying which can occur even when the bullies are nowhere near their victims.

Cyber-bullying (网络欺凌) is one of the bad sides of new technology and involves using devices like mobile phones and computers. Cyber-bullies can strike at any time, no matter where they or their victims are. So it is possible to cyber-bully someone within the safety of their own home. 22 percent of young people in the UK claim to have suffered from cyber-bullying.

Not only are cyber-bullies harder to avoid, they are also harder to catch. It is all so easy to send an anonymous threat by text on a pay-as-you-go phone with an unknown number. It takes no time at all to set up a false Facebook，Twitter, blog or social network account and to post an insulting (侮辱的) message. And, if you know how to hide your IP address，you can upload an insulting video to a website like YouTube and your victim wouldn’t know who to blame.

One of the most upsetting things about cyber-bullying is that it can involve more people than traditional forms of bullying. A bully can insult you or tell lies about you and share that information with the entire school at the touch of a button—and for some teenagers that is all too hard to bear. The UK charity Beatbullying suggests that up to 44% of suicides (自杀) among ten-to-fourteen-year-old, for example, may be bullying-related.

The good news is that the world is starting to get wise to cyber-bullying. Schools and websites like http：//www. children-int. org offer lots of advice and victim support and social network sites now advise users to think carefully about their privacy settings so that personal information is only shared with friends. Many also provide a red button to click to report disturbing activities.

22. Which of the following is true about cyber-bullying?

A. Cyber-bullying involves fewer people.

B. Cyber-bullies are hard to avoid and catch.

C. Cyber-bullies can’t strike when one is safe at home.

D. Cyber-bullying causes 44% of the children to commit suicide.

23. What does the underlined word “anonymous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Hard to understand.                                                       B. Frightening.

C. Having no known name.                                                 D. Upsetting.

24. Schools and websites have helped except for       .

A. offering advice and victim support

B. providing a button used to ask for help

C. reminding users of their safe privacy settings

D. advising users to share personal information with friends

25. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Bullying goes Hi-tech                                               B. Disadvantages of new technology

C. Forms of bullying                                                     D. Cyber-bullying causes children’s suicides

【回答】

BCDA

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