2016年考研英语二真题(精心校对,完美打印版).doc

2016年 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 Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness might influence __1__ firms work, too. 　　Companies located in place with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper. 2__, firms in happy places spend more on RD(research and development).That’s because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking __3__ for making investment for the future. 　　The researchers wanted to know if the 4__ and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would __5__the way companies invested. So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness __6__by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas. 　　7__enough, firms’ investment and RD intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were __8__. But it is really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities __9__ why firms there spend more on RD? To find out, the researches controlled for various __10__ that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry , and sales-and-and for indicators that a place was __11__ to live in, like growth in wages or population. They link between happiness and investment generally __12__ even after accounting for these things. 　　The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors 13__ to “less confined decision making process” and the possible presence of younger and less __14__ managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.” The relationship was __15__ stronger in places where happiness was spread more __16__. Firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.. 　　17__ th