MBA考试

【单选题】In 1924American’s National ResearchCouncil sent to engineers to supervise a series of industrial experiments at a large telephone-parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant nearChicago. 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 upon 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, 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 working week in any case, before (20) a plateau and then slackening off. This suggests that the alleged "Hawthorne effect" is hard to pin down.

A、affectedB、achievedC、extractedD、restored
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
[解析] 该句的已知信息为：希望他们(指派去指导实验的两名工程师)能够得知工作场所的照明如何工人的生产力。对比4个选项，可知A：affected“影响”符合句意。B：achieved“获得”、C：extracted“榨取”和D：restored“恢复”都不符合此处文义，均排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>