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IV. Passage Completion 10%The killing of 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut has understandably shocked the nation, and details are just beginning to emerge about the shooter, Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man who also murdered his mother. Events like these will surely 41 debates about gun control, or lead people to complain about American culture itself. Yet on the very same day, a 36-year-old Chinese man attacked 22 children with a knife at a primary school in China, 42 that there is a decisive factor with mass homicides that gets far less attention.For all the disbelief and dismay, we actually know pretty well that most such events are43 by individuals with a particular set of features. School shooters have generally been found to 1) have a history of antisocial-personality traits, 2) suffer from mental illnesses such as depression or psychosis and 3) tend to obsess about how others, whether other individuals or society at large, have 44 them. These individuals seethe with rage and hatred and misery, until they decide to lash out at others or a society they believe has done them great wrong. Mental health, as well as our failure to address it as a society, is at the45 of these events.Not all mass homicide perpetrators aim at schools, but schools do seem to be an unusually common target. People wonder why angry men (and an occasional woman) so often target innocent children who have done them no wrong. In the case of Sandy Hook, although early reports suggested that Lanza’s mother, Nancy Lanza, may have worked there, the school superintendent has since clarified that she was not a teacher or a substitute. In many other cases, there is no obvious connection. 46 the horror and great sadness that has descended over the nation, we have our answer. These perpetrators have lashed out against society in the most vicious way possible, causing the most pain that they could. That is the point of targeting a school.Gun control may probably 47 one tool from the hands of potential perpetrators, but mass homicides occur in every part of the globe — Scotland, Norway, Germany, China. So while it may indeed be the right time to talk about gun control, as many are saying, it is also the right time to talk about mental health care in our country. Our country’s funding for mental-health 48 has only gotten worse since the 2008 recession. As the National Alliance on Mental Illness has been warning for some time, the existing level of funding is not enough, so our nation has had trouble identifying and caring for the severely mentally ill.In my own clinical work, I’ve seen individuals I’ve identified as being potentially at risk for 49 criminal behavior because of their mental illness. Very often, there are simply few or no resources for them until they come to the attention of the criminal-justice system. But by leaving the mentally ill adrift to fend for themselves, we miss the opportunity to identify and treat some of these at-risk individuals before they escalate. Of course, neither gun control nor a well-funded mental-health system will prevent every mass homicide. But we leave ourselves — and more innocent children — 50 until we address both of those issues.
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答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(1),B(3),C(1),D(2),E(0)

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