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In 1924 American’ National Research Council sent to 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. Indeed, the studies ended 2 giving their name to the “Hawthorne effect” the extremely influential idea the very 3 to being experimented upon changed subject’s behavior.
The idea arose because of the 4 behavior of the women in the plant. According to 5 of the experiments their hourly out put 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 be have let 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.
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
4.[A]controversial [B]perplexing [C]mischieous [D]ambiguous
5.[A] requirements [B]explanations [C]accounts [D]assessment
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
12.[A]contrary to [B]consistent with [C]parallel with [D]pealiar 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]duty [B]accidentally [C]unpredictably [D]suddenly
17.[A]failed [B]ceased [C]starte [D] continued
20.[A]breaking [B]climbing [C]surpassing [D]hiting
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