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2016考研资料分享群：248600511 2010年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 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 large telephoneparts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how shopfloor lighting 1workers productivity. Instead, the studies ended 2giving their name to the “Hawthorne effect? the extremely influential idea that the very 3to being experimented upon changed subjects?behavior. The idea arose because of the 4behavior of the women in the plant. According to 5 of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not 6what 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?behavior10itself. After several decades, the same data were 11to econometric analysis. The Hawthorne experiments has another surprise in 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 have led to 14 interpretations of what happened. 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 Mondays. 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 揌awthorne effect?is hard to pin down.(290 words) 1. ［A］ affected［B］ achieved ［C］ extracted［D］ restored 2. ［A］ at ［B］ up［C］ with［D］ off 3. ［A］ truth［B］ sight［C］ act［D］ proof 4. ［A］ controver