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In 1924 American National Research Council sent two engineer to supervise a series of experiments at a 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 of being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior. The 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 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 have led to 14 interpretation 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 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.
【答案解析】该填空应该与前面的end以及后面的动词现在分词形式搭配。匹个选项中,B、C、D三项都可以与end搭配,故可首先排除A。end up doing意为“以做……而告终”;end with意为“以……为结束”,但后面只能用名词;end off意为“结束,完成”,接宾语时,结构应为:end sth. off。故该题选B。
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【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】选项:truth“真理”;sight“情景,视野”;act“行为”;proof“证明,证据”。分析句子结构,该空所在部分是同位语从句,of being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior是对该填空的解释,故应该选与behavior同义的单词,选C。
【答案解析】选项:conclude“得出结论”;matter“要紧,有关系”;indicate“指出,象征”;work“运作,产生效果”。do not matter意为“没有关系”,结合句意,______实验的内容是什么;______发生变化,生产率就会提高。由此可见,最终的结果是生产率会提高,即无论实验的内容是什么,最终的结果相同。故应该选B。
单选题
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】选项:as far as“至于…,就… 而言”;for fear that“以免,惟恐,万一”;in case that“如果,假如”;so long as“只要”。结合句意,______发生变化,生产率就会提高。故应选D。