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2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 2010 年全国硕士研究生统一考试英语试题 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 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 大 1家 workers productivity. Instead, the studies ended 大 2家 giving their name to the Hawthorne effect, the extremely influential idea that the very 大 3家 to being experimented upon changed subjects behavior. The idea arose because of the 大4家 behavior of the women in the Hawthorne plant. According to 大 5家 of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not 大 6家 what was done in the experiment; 大7家 something was changed, productivity rose. A(n) 大 8家 that they were being experimented upon seemed to be 大 9家 to alter workers behavior 大 10家 itself. After several decades, the samedata were 大 11家 to econometric the analysis. Hawthorne experiments has another surprise store 大 12家 the descriptions on record, no systematic 大 13家 was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting. It turns out that peculiar way of conducting the experiments may be 第 1 页 共 21 页 2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 have let to 大 14家 interpretation of what happed. 大 15家 , lighting was always changed on a Sunday. When work started again on Monday, output 大 16家 rose compared with the previous