（荐）2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题8.doc

2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题(文字版) 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 Hawthore Plant near Chicago.It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lignting__ affected _workers productivity. Instead, the studies ended __ up ___giving their name to the “Hawthorne effect”, the extremely influential idea that the very___ act ____to being experimented upon changed subjects’ behavior. The idea arose because of the _ perplexing ___behavior of the women in the Hawthorne plant.According to __ accounts ___of the experments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not __ matter __what was done in the experiment; __ so long so_something was changed ,productivity rose. A(n)___ awareness __that they were being experimented upon seemed to be ___ enough ___to alter workers’ behavior ____ by ____itself. After several decades, the same data were _ subjected __ to econometric the analysis. The Hawthorne experiments have another surprise in store: _ contrary to __the descriptions on record, no systematic _ evidence _ was found that levels of reproductivity were related to changes in lighting. It turns out that particular way of conducting the experiments may have led to__ misleading_ interpretation of what happed.__ For example ___ , lighting was always changed on a Sunday .When work started again on Monday, output __ duly ___ rose compared with the previous Saturday and__ continued _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 weeking week in any case , before __hitting __a plateau and then slack