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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 American’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 “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. The Hawthorne experiments have another surprise in store: _12 __the descriptions on record, no systematic _13__ 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__ 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 “Hawthorne effect “is hard to pin down. 1. [A] affected [B] achieved [C] extracted [D]