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1 What is the best title for the passage?

✔ What is the Bystander Effect?
Examples of the Bystander Effect
How can Bystanders Help Victims?
Bystander Effect: A Growing Problem

2 The word hesitate to is closest in meaning to

be willing to ✔ be reluctant to
be apt to be responsible for

3 Which of the following is NOT true according to the bystander effect?

People may not feel that help is necessary.
People tend to act like the other people do.
✔ People are not sure how they can help the victim.
People think that someone else will help the victim.

4 Which of the following best fits in the blank?

How many people were there
Why did Genovese keep screaming
Why did the robber attack Genovese
✔ How could they not help a person in trouble

Summarize the Text

Complete the summary with the words in the box.

someone in trouble feel less responsible do like everyone else
there are some reasons the bystander effect if they try to help

What is ? It means when a large group of people sees

, nobody does anything about it. why

people don’t help a person in trouble. First of all, people tend to in a

large group. Secondly, most people in a group. Finally, many people

are afraid of what might happen .

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