文档介绍：2010年英语真题
Section ⅠUse 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 experiments at a telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how shop-floor lighting 1 workers’ productivity. Instead, the studies ended 2
giving their name to the “Hawthorne effect,” the extremely influential idea that the very3of being experimented upon changed subjects behavior.
The idea arose because of the4 behavior of the women in the plant. According to5 of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not6 what was done in the experiment;7something was changed, productivity rose. A(n)8 that they were being experimented upon seemed to be9 to alter workers behavior10 itself.
After several decades, the same data were11to econometric analysis. The Hawthorne experiments had another surprise in the descriptions on record, no systematic13 was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.
   It turns out that the peculiar way of conducting the experiments may have led to14 interpretations of what , lighting was always changed on a Sunday. When work started again on