文档介绍：2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of industrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting __1__ workers' productivity. Instead, the studies ended __2__ giving their name to the "Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very __3__ to being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior.
The idea arose because of the __4__ behavior of the women in the Hawthorne plant. According to __5__ of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not __6__ what was done in the experiment; __7__ something was changed, productivity rose. A(n) __8__ that they were being experimented upon seemed to be __9__ to alter workers' behavior __10__ itself.
After several decades, the same data were __11__ to econometric the analysis. Hawthorne experiments has another surprise store __12__the descriptions on record, no systematic __13__ was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.
It turns out that peculiar way of conducting the experiments may be have let t