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1、2010年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语一试题Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and nark 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 experiments at a telephone-parts
2、 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.Th
3、e 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 bei
4、ng experimented upon seemed to be 9 to alter workers behavior 10 itself.After several decades, the same data were 11 to econometric analysis. The Hawthorne experiments had another surprise in store. 12 the descriptions on record, no systematic 13 was found that levels of productivity were related to
5、 changes in lighting.It turns out that peculiar way of conducting the experiments may have led to 14 interpretations of what happened. 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 coupl
6、e of days. 18 , a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Mondays. 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
7、 hard to pin down.1. A affectedB achieved C extractedD restored2. A atB upC withD off3. A truth B sightC actD proof4. A controversialB perplexing C mischievousD ambiguous5. A requirementsB explanationsC accountsD assessments6. A conclude B matterC indicateD work7. A as far asB for fear thatC in case
8、 thatD so long as8. A awarenessB expectationC sentimentD illusion9. A suitableB excessiveC enoughD abundant10. A aboutB forC onD by11. A comparedB shownC subjectedD conveyed12. A Contrary to B Consistent withC Parallel withD Peculiar to13. A evidenceB guidanceC implicationD source14. A disputableB e
9、nlighteningC reliableD misleading15. A In contrastB For exampleC In consequenceD As usual16. A dulyB accidentallyC unpredictablyD suddenly17. A failedB ceasedC startedD continued18. A ThereforeB FurthermoreC HoweverD Meanwhile19. A attemptedB tendedC chose D intended20. A breakingB climbingC surpass
10、ingD hittingSection 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 1Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarte
11、r-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 when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city
12、 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 contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circu
13、lation 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 considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeare
14、d. 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, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted
15、 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
