Section I  Use of English

Directions:

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 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of industrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago. It hoped they would learn how stop-floor lighting workers' productivity. Instead, the studies ended   giving their name to the "Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very  to being experimented upon changed subjects' behavior.

The idea arose because of the  behavior of the women in the Hawthorne plant. According to  of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed. It did not  what was done in the experiment; something was changed, productivity rose. A(n)  that they were being experimented upon seemed to be  to alter workers' behavior itself.

After several decades, the same data were  to econometric the analysis. Hawthorne experiments has another surprise store the descriptions on record, no systematic  was found 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  interpretation of what happed. , lighting was always changed on a Sunday. When work started again on Monday, output rose compared with the previous Saturday and 17    to rise for the next couple of days. , a comparison with data for weeks when there was no experimentation showed that output always went up on Monday, workers  to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before  a plateau and then slackening off. This suggests that the alleged "Hawthorne effect" is hard to pin down.

1. [A] affected [B] achieved [C] extracted [D] restored

2. [A] at [B] up [C] with [D] off

3. [A] truth [B] sight [C] act [D] proof  http://www.woexam.com/kaoyan/

4. [A] controversial [B] perplexing [C] mischievous [D] ambiguous

5. [A] requirements [B] explanations [C] accounts [D] assessments

6. [A] conclude [B] matter [C] indicate [D] work

7. [A] as far as [B] for fear that [C] in case that [D] so long as

8. [A] awareness [B] expectation [C] sentiment [D] illusion

9. [A] suitable [B] excessive [C] enough [D] abundant

10. [A] about [B] for [C] on [D] by

11. [A] compared [B] shown [C] subjected [D] conveyed  http://www.woexam.com/kaoyan/

12. [A] contrary to [B] consistent with [C] parallel with [D] peculiar to

13. [A] evidence [B] guidance [C] implication [D] source

14. [A] disputable [B] enlightening [C] reliable [D] misleading

15. [A] In contrast [B] For example [C] In consequence [D] As usual

16. [A] duly [B] accidentally [C] unpredictably [D] suddenly

17. [A] failed [B] ceased [C] started [D] continued

20. [A] breaking [B] climbing [C] surpassing [D] hitting