第 31 至 35 題為題組         The effect of bullying can be serious and even lead to tragedy. Unfortunately, it is still a mostlyunresearched area.        __31__ That year two shotgun-wielding students, both of whom had been identified as gifted andwho had been bullied for years, killed 13 people, wounded 24 and then committed suicide. A year later ananalysis by the US government found that bullying played a major role in more than two-thirds of thecampus violence.
      __32__ Numerous dictators and invaders throughout history have tried to justify their bullyingbehavior by claiming that they themselves were bullied. __33__ Although it is no justification forbullying, many of the worst humans in history have indeed been bullies and victims of bullying.         Since bullying is mostly ignored, it may provide an important clue in crowd behavior and passer-bybehavior. __34__ Many of them have suggested bullying as one of the reasons of this decline inemotional sensitivity and acceptance of violence as normal. When someone is bullied, it is not only thebully and the victim who are becoming less sensitive to violence. __35__ In this sense, bullying affectsnot only the bullied but his friends and classmates and the whole society. (AB) Hitler, for example, is claimed to have been a victim of bullying in his childhood.(AC) Campus bullying is becoming a serious problem in some high schools in big cities.(AD) The friends and classmates of the bully and the victim may accept the violence as normal.(AE) Research indicates that bullying may form a chain reaction and the victim often becomes thebully.(BC) Psychologists have been puzzled by the inactivity of crowds and bystanders in urban centerswhen crimes occur in crowded places.(BD) The link between bullying and school violence has attracted increasing attention since the 1999tragedy at a Colorado high school.
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