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2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 点击进入真题在线测试 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 quot;Hawthorne effectquot;, 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 to __14__ interpretation of what happed. __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 days. __18__, a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Monday, workers __19__ to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before __20__ a plateau and then slackening off. This suggests that the alleged quot;Hawthorne effectquot; is hard to pin down. 1. [A] af