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1、2010 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections: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 la
2、rge 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 chang
3、ed 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, prod
4、uctivity 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 f
5、ound 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 th
6、e 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 slackenin
7、g off. This suggests that the alleged Hawthorne effect is hard to pin down.1. A affected B achieved C extracted D restored2. A at B up C with D off3. A truth B sight C act D proof4. A controversial B perplexing C mischievous D ambiguous5. A requirements B explanations C accounts D assessments6. A co
8、nclude B matter C indicate D work7. A as far as B for fear that C in case that D so long as8. A awareness B expectation C sentiment D illusion9. A suitable B excessive C enough D abundant10.A about B for C on D by11.A compared B shown C subjected D conveyed12.A contrary to B consistent withC paralle
9、l with D peculiar to 13.A evidence B guidance C implication D source14.A disputable B enlightening C reliable D misleading15.A In contrast B For example C In consequence D As usual16.A duly B accidentally C unpredictably D suddenly18.A Therefore B Furthermore C However D Meanwhile19.A attempted B te
10、nded C chose D intended20.A breaking B climbing C surpassing D hittingSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 1 Of all the changes that have tak
11、en place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage. It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time wh
12、en high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers. Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews. To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned conte
13、nts were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was
14、considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered. Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly
15、, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press. “So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote, “that I am tempted to define journalism as a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are.”Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manch
