Most of us think we know the kind of kid who becomes a killer, and most of the time we're

right. Boys 【C1】______ about 85% of all youth murderers, and in those cases about 90% fall within a pattern 【C2】______ the line from bad parenting and bad 【C3】______ to murder is usually clear. Their lives start with abuse, neglect and 【C4】______ deprivation at home. Add the effects of poverty and drug, and it is not 【C5】______ that in a violent society like ours, 【C6】______ children become deadly teens.

【C7】______ what about the other 10% of kids who kill: the boys who have 【C8】______ parents and are not poor？ Are their parents to blame when these kids become 【C9】______ ？

Most children do fine while young enough to be 【C10】______ by loving parents, but change as adolescents subjected to peer competition and rejection, 【C11】______ in big high schools, Today it becomes hard for parents to 【C12】______ between what in a teenager's talk, dress and taste in music and video games indicates 【C13】______ trouble and what is simply a 【C14】______ of the times. Most kids who have multiple body piercing, or play the video games are normal kids caught in a toxic 【C15】______ . Intelligent kids with good social skills can be quite skillful at hiding who they really are from their parents. They may do this to 【C16】______ punishment or to protect the parents they love from being 【C17】______ or worried. Anyway, how many parents are 【C18】______ of thinking the worst of their son-- 【C19】______ , that he harbors murders fantasies, or that he could 【C20】______ so far as acting them out.

【C1】

A．complete

B．commit

C．submit

D．perform