Kick the online bully in you - Unit 4

C2 Proficiency · Open Cloze · Close-up C2 Workbook, National Geographic Learning

For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.

A recent study showed that once children reach the age where they're able to use the internet and have a social media account, around 50 per cent (1) ___ go on to do some kind of online bullying. We might think that statistic (2) ___ be true, but it's roughly equal to the percentage of children who claim to have been bullied. Online bullies need (3) ___ necessarily be juvenile delinquents; most are just blithely unaware of how hurtful their remarks can be. If they were brought up correctly by their parents, they certainly (4) ___ to know better than to do it, but often it takes a realisation about the feelings of others to change their conduct. For that to happen, the bully (5) ___ experience the reaction of the bullied first-hand. With the anonymity provided by the internet, bullies (6) ___ often easily get away with their taunts. But what (7) ___ happen to children who get caught bullying – have their accounts frozen or get banned from using the internet? The latter would (8) ___ to be up to parents, but unfortunately they're sometimes the source of the problem in the first place.

Kick the online bully in you

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