2003年-2010年考研英语真题倒序.doc

2003年-2010年考研英语真题 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) . To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies. We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learIn 1924 Americas 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 lig