文档介绍：2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试（英语一）试题及答案
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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 American ’ National Research Council sent to 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 lignting__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_someting
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 to__ 14__
interpretation of what 15___ , lighting was always changed on a Sunday .When
work started again on Monday, output __16___ rose compared with the previous Saturday
and__ 17 __to rise for the next couple of 18__ , a comparison with data for weeks
when there was no experimentation showed that output