In 1924 America's National Research Coun

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问题 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 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 12the 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 happed.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.14选?A.disputableB.enlighteningC.reliableD.misleading

选项 A.disputable
B.enlightening
C.reliable
D.misleading

答案 D

解析 本题尾段首句,主要考察总体上对上下文内容的理解。misleading一词既能概括对上文研究结果的看法,又能引出下文的例子。根据题意首先排除B、C。前面并没有谈到对于所发生的事情的任何“有争议”的结论,如果选择A,则后面应该阐述引起争议的观点。故本题只能选misleading。从语义上看,该项符合语境所要表达的意思,从后面的举例中也可以看出。所以本题的正确答案为D。
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