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Name-calling and teasing are overwhelmingly the main type of classroom bullying, says a study funded by UNESCO.
However, the study does (47) some good news. The research in the British part of the program has found that the problem of bullying in schools has (48) . A decade of anti-bullying initiatives has led to the first recorded drop in the number of victims and a (49) fall in the number of young bullies. This is the first (50) study to show school bullying on the decrease. The research, being published in the year 2000, was carried out by psychologist Peter Smith, of Goldsmith’s College, London. The war on (51) and name-calling has been so successful that Britain is no longer the bullying capital of Europe, showing major improvements in (52) with other European countries.
The international research shows that there has been a (53) of at least 72,000 in the number of English teenagers who say they have been bullied, compared with 10 years ago. Meanwhile the number of perpetrators(作恶者) has more than halved, (54) from 550,000 to 240,000 over the same period.
Back in 1990, Smith (55) interviews with 7,000 Yorkshire children aged between 10 and 16. He found that the proportion of pupils suffering (56) at the hands of bullies ranged from 15% in West Yorkshire to 13.1% in Sheffield. Last year he repeated the exercise, questioning 2,300 pupils from across England. He discovered that only 12.2% of pupils were bullied.

• A) combinationF) abstract K) delighted
• B) decreasedG) decline L) suddenly
• C) dramaticH) involving M) shrinking
• D) substantialI) conducted N) reveal
• E) violenceJ) regularly O) comparison