10.【答案】C harsh
【解析】此处考察词义辨析+上下文语境。空格句句意：你会失去耐心并对孩子大吼大叫，而且有时候会说一些很伤人/刻薄的话，对每个人都没好处。根据上下文，something 后面的形容词一定是贬义的，harsh为刺耳的/严格的，故选C。
11.【答案】A turn back
【解析】此处考察动词搭配+上下文语境。空格句句意：你会希望时间倒流，一切重新再来。turn back为(使)往回走，take apart 为拆开/拆解，set aside为把....放一旁/不理会，cover up为盖起来，均不符合句意，故选A。
12.【答案】C however
【解析】此处考察上下文逻辑关系。空格句指出：然而，即使是这是很普遍的现象，我们还是要牢记，哪怕只是一点点的疲惫，都会让你对孩子说一些你会后悔很久的话。上一段描述了一般情况下父母是如何对孩子失去耐心，并且这很普遍(We've all been there/it's common)，空格句对比上一段发生了转折，故选C。
13.【答案】D regret
【解析】此处考察动词词义辨析+上下文语境。上一段描述了父母如何对孩子失去耐心，然后又希望时间倒流一切重新再来，那么疲惫时对孩子说的话一定是会让你后悔(regret)的，其他选项喜欢，错过，相信均不符合上下文，故选D。
14.【答案】B affect
【解析】考察动宾搭配。结合原文语境，“这也许不仅会伤害你和孩子之间的关系，而且会...你的孩子的自尊”所以这里填上一个动词接后面的宾语自尊心，所以答案只能是affect,“影响自尊心”。而raise提高，养育;justify证明合理性;reflect影响，均不能合理搭配。
15.【答案】D cool
【解析】本题考察动宾搭配，也是主题复现，cool有“冷静之意。“如果你总是对你的孩子失去...,”本文一直在探讨的主题就是对孩子要有耐心，因此符合题意的只能是cool, 而time时间，bond结合，纽带，race比赛，种族都不符合这里的语境。
16.【答案】C importance
【解析】本题考察名词的修饰关系，A of B的结构中填名词A，主要参照后面of结构对它的修饰作用。Of结构在这里表示“建立对孩子宽容和耐心的...”联系前面说”我们越来越重视...”因此符合题意的应该是importance“重要性”nature，自然、天性;secret秘密，context环境。
17.【答案】D confronted
【解析】本题考查动宾搭配，根据本题语境，“事实上，在....压力时情绪调节或维持情绪控制的能力是所有生活技能中最重要的一项”，压力前面应该搭配“面对”故选择confronted其他的cheated欺骗，defeated打败，confused困惑均不符合。
18.【答案】B hard
【解析】此处考察表语形容词。主要参照跟前面的incredible加起来表示“不可避免的...一直对孩子保持耐心”可以先看选项terrible糟糕的，strange奇怪的，wrong错误的，这三个都不能放在此处形成合理搭配，所以hard更合适。
19.【答案】A trying
【解析】本题考察修饰关系。根据原文语境“一个更实际的目标是去尝试，尽你最大的能力，当你面对涉及孩子的...情况时，尽可能地宽容和冷静” 需要父母宽容和冷静的应该是不太好的情况，答案trying做形容词表示“令人厌烦的”最合适。changing变化，exciting激动人心的surprising令人惊讶的，均不能体现这里的含义。
20.【答案】B emerge
【解析】考察动宾搭配，这里的句义是“朝着这个目标努力的结果是，你和你的孩子将受益并从很有压力的这些时候...，在身体和情感上感觉更好”。只有“浮现，出现”最符合，所以选择emerge， 而hide隐藏，withdraw撤退，escape逃避均为负面含义，故不符合。
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A.
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points)
Text 1
Rats and other animals need to be highly at tuned to social signals from others so that can identify friends to cooperate with and enemies to avoid. To find out if this extends to non-living beings, Loleh Quinn at the University of California, San Diego, and her colleagues tested whether rats can detect social signals from robotic rats.
They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat-one social and one asocial -for 5 our days.
The robots rats were quite minimalist, resembling a chunkier version of a computer mouse with wheels-to move around and colorful markings.
During the experiment, the social robot rat followed the living rats around, played with the same toys, and opened caged doors to let trapped rats escape. Meanwhile, the asocial robot simply moved forwards and backwards and side to side.
Next, the researchers trapped the robots in cages and gave the rats the opportunity to release them by pressing a lever.
Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one. This suggests that the rats perceived the social robot as a genuine social being. They may have bonded more with the social robot because it displayed behaviors like communal exploring and playing. This could lead to the rats better remembering having
freed it earlier, and wanting the robot to return the favour when they get trapped, says Quinn.
The readiness of the rats to befriend the social robot was surprising given its minimal design. The robot was the same size as a regular rat but resembled a simple plastic box on wheels. \head and tail, facial features, and put a scene on it to make it smell like a real rat, but that wasn't necessary,\Queensland in Australia, who helped with the research.
The finding shows how sensitive rats arc to social cues, even when they come from basic robots. Similarly, children tend to treat robots as if they are fellow beings, even when they display only simple social signals. \to be fascinated by robots, and it turns out other animals are too,\
21.Quinn and her colleagues conducted a test to see if rats can .
[A] pickup social signals from non-living rats
[B] distinguish a friendly rat from a hostile one
[C] attain sociable traits through special training
[D] send out warning messages to their fellow
22.What did the social robot do during the experiment?
[A] It followed the social robot.
2020年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语(二)试题及答案
