2010年考研英语一试题答案及解析.pdfVIP

一、SectionⅠUseofEnglish

In1924America’sNationalResearchCouncilsenttwoengineerstosuperviseaseries

ofexperimentsatatelephone-partsfactorycalledtheHawthornePlantnearChicago.It

hopedtheywouldlearnhowshop-floorlighting(1)_____workers’productivity.Instead,

thestudiesended(2)_____givingtheirnametothe“Hawthorneeffect,”theextremely

influentialideathatthevery(3)_____ofbeingexperimenteduponchangedsubjects’

behavior.

Theideaarosebecauseofthe(4)_____behaviorofthewomenintheplant.According

to(5)_____oftheexperiments,theirhourlyoutputrosewhenlightingwasincreased,but

alsowhenitwasdimmed.Itdidnot(6)_____whatwasdoneintheexperiment;(7)_____

somethingwaschanged,productivityrose.A(n)(8)_____thattheywerebeing

experimenteduponseemedtobe(9)_____toalterworkers’behavior(10)_____itself.

Afterseveraldecades,thesamedatawere(11)_____toeconometricanalysis.The

Hawthorneexperimentshadanothersurpriseinstore.(12)_____thedescriptionson

record,nosystematic(13)_____wasfoundthatlevelsofproductivitywererelatedto

changesinlighting.

Itturnsoutthatthepeculiarwayofconductingtheexperimentsmayhaveledto

(14)_____interpretationofwhathappened.(15)_____,lightingwasalwayschangedona

Sunday.WhenworkstartedagainonMonday,output(16)_____rosecomparedwiththe

previousSaturdayand(17)_____toriseforthenextcoupleofdays.(18)_____,a

comparisonwithdataforweekswhentherewasnoexperimentationshowedthatoutput

alwayswentuponMondays.Workers(19)_____tobediligentforthefirstfewdaysof

theweekinanycase,before(20)_____aplateauandthenslackeningoff.Thissuggests

thatthealleged“Hawthorneeffect”ishardtopindown.

1、(1)

A、affected

B、achieved

C、extracted

D、restored

解析：

答案精析：文章开头指出两名工程师被派去指导一系列实验（senttwoengineersto

superviseaseriesof

experiments）。随后