2010 年全國(guó)碩士研究生英語(yǔ)(一)真題
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 to engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how shop 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 of being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior.
The idea arose because of the 4 behavior 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 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 had another surprise store. 12 the descriptions on record, no systematic 13 was found that levels of productivity were related to changes in lighting.
