2010年考研英语（一）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 America'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. 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 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] restored

2.    [A] at                          [B] up                       [C] with                    [D] off

3.    [A] truth                     [B] sight                   [C] act                      [D] proof

4.    [A] controversial          [B] perplexing           [C] mischievous         [D] ambiguous

5.    [A] requirements      [B] explanation       [C] accounts             [D] assessments

6.    [A] conclude                [B] matter                 [C] indicate               [D] work

7.    [A] as far as                [B] for fear that         [C] in case that          [D] so long as

8.    [A] awareness             [B] expectation         [C] sentiment            [D] illusion

9.    [A] suitable                 [B] excessive             [C] enough                [D] abundant

10.  [A] about                    [B] for                      [C] on                       [D] by

11.  [A] compared              [B] shown  &