2010考研英语真题及答案.pdf

2010 年考研英语真题及答案

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 Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.
It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lignting__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_someting
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. Hawthorne
experiments has another surprise 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 be have let to__ 14__
interpretation of what 15___ , lighting was always changed on a Sunday .When work
started again on Monday, output __16___ pared with the previous Saturday and__ 17
__to rise for the next couple of 18__ , parison 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 [