考研英语一真题及答案完美打印版.docx

1、考研英语一真题及答案完美打印版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 exper

2、iments 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 up

3、on 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, pro

4、ductivity 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 fou

5、nd 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 prev

6、ious 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

7、 suggests that the alleged Hawthorne effect is hard to pin down.1.A affectedB achievedC extractedD restored2.A atB upC withD off3.A truthB sightC actD proof4.A controversialB perplexingC mischievousD ambiguous5.A requirementsB explanationsC accountsD assessments6.A concludeB matterC indicateD work7.

8、A as far asB for fear thatC in case 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 toB consistent withC parallel withD peculiar to13.A evidenceB guidanceC implicatio

9、nD source14.A disputableB enlighteningC reliableD misleading15.A In contrast B For exampleC In consequence D As usual16.A dulyB accidentallyC unpredictablyD suddenly17.A failedB ceasedC startedD continued18.AThereforeBFurthermoreCHoweverDMeanwhile19.AattemptedBtendedCchoseDintended20.A breakingB cli

10、mbingC surpassingD hitting Section 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 1Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers duri

11、ng 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 when high-quality arts criticism could be foun

12、d 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 contents were once deemed suitable for publicatio

13、n 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 considered an ornament to the publications i

14、n 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, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman

15、, 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 wri