Direction (Q. No. 26 to 30) : Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of four alternatives.

Why do students become a bully? Bullying is a big problem. It can make kids feel hurt, scared, sick, lonely, embarrassed and sad. Bullies might hit, kick, or push to hurt people, or use words to call names, threaten, tease, or scare them. A bully might say mean things about someone, grab a kid’s stuff, make fun of someone, or leave a kid out of the group on purpose. Some bullies threaten people or try to make them do things they don’t want to do. It is often seen that in schools most classes have group of students who are bullies. Who are they and why do they act in that particular manner? Bullies are children who like to dominate others. Bullies are often children who want to feel important and want to make themselves popular. Bullying children who are weaker than themselves makes them feel big and powerful. Many a times, bullies are just insensitive children who know that it hurts their victims but they continue to do it anyway. Some children who bully are attention-seekers. Children who do not get emotional support at home and are not given attention at home may try to attract attention towards themselves in the classroom through bullying. In some cases, a child who is bullied, sometimes ends up bullying others. Some bullies come from families where everyone is angry and shouting all the time. They may think that being angry, calling names, and pushing people around is a normal way to act. Some bullies are copying what they’ve seen someone else do. Some have been bullied themselves. Sometimes bullies know that what they are doing or saying hurts other people. But other bullies may not really know hurtful their actions can be. Other factors such as teacher’s indifference to the victims and bad disciplining by parents of bullies can also cause bullying.

Question-30 : ‘Bullies might hit, kick, or push to hurt people, or use words to call names, threaten, tease, or scare them’. What does the idiom ‘call names’ means?

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