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  3. Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (1)_____ about 85% of all

Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (1)_____ about 85% of all

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问题     Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we’re right. Boys (1)_____ about 85% of all youth homicides, and in those cases about 90% (2)_____ a pattern in which the line from bad parenting and bad (3)_____ to murder is usually clear. Their lives start with abuse, neglect and (4)_____ deprivation at home. Add the effects of racism, poverty, the drug and gang cultures, and it is not (5)_____ that in a violent society like ours, (6)_____ children become deadly teens.
    (7)_____ what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have (8)_____ parents and are not poor? Are their parents to blame when these kids become (9)_____?
    Most children do fine while young enough to be (10)_____ by loving parents, but change as adolescents subjected to peer competition, bullying and rejection, (11)_____ in big high schools. The "normal" culture of adolescence today contains elements that are so nasty that it becomes hard for parents to (12)_____ between what in a teenager’s talk, dress and taste in music, films and video games indicates (13)_____ trouble and what is simply a (14)_____ of the times. Most kids who have multiple body piercing, or listen to Marilyn Manson, or play the video games are normal kids caught in a toxic (15)_____ Intelligent kids with good social skills can be quite skillful at hiding who they really are from their parents. They may do this to (16)_____ punishment, to escape being identified as "crazy", or to protect the parents they love from being (17)_____ or worried. Anyway, how many parents are (18)_____ of thinking the worst of their son—(19)_____, that he harbors murders fantasies, or that he could (20)_____ so far as acting them out.

选项 A、aroused
B、nurtured
C、flourished
D、whipped
答案B
解析 词汇辨析题。本段对第二段提出的问题进行了解答：大多数孩子在很小的时候由关爱他们的父母养育时表现很好。nurture意为"养育，教养"，如：She nurtured the child as if he had been her own．(她把那孩子当作自己的孩子来养育)。arouse意为"激起，唤起"，flourish意为"繁荣，兴隆"，这两个词与本句没有语义联系；whip意为"鞭打，抽打"，whip与后面的loving parents语义上不吻合。
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