2016年全国硕士研究生招生考试
英语（二）试题
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B2016年考研英语真题, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points)
①Happy people work differently. They’re more productive,more creative2016年考研英语真题, and willing to take greater risks. ②And new research suggests that happiness might influence 1 firms work, too.
①Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper. 2 , firms in happy places spend more on R&D (research and development). ②That’s because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking 3 for making investments for the future.
①The researchers wanted to know if the 4 and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would 5 the way companies invested. ② So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness6 by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.
① 7 enough, firms’ investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were 8 . ②But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities 9 why firms there spend more on R&D? ③To find out, the researchers controlled for various 10 that might make firms more likely to invest—like size,industry2016年考研英语真题, and sales—and for indicators that a place was 11 to live in, like growth in wages or population.
④The link between happiness and investment generally 12 even after accounting for these things.
①The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms,which the authors 13 to “less codified decision making process” and the possible presence of “younger and less 14 managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.”②The relationship was 15 stronger in places where happiness was spread more 16 . ③Firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy2016年考研英语真题, rather than in places with happiness inequality.
① 17 this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term
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