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新东方在线考研英语讲义 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, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) ① Happy people work differently. They ’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. ②And new research suggests that happiness might influence 1 firms work, too. ① Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper. 2 , firms in happy places spend more on RD (research and development). ②That ’s because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking 3 for making investments for the future. ① The 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 happiness 6 by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas. ① 7 enough, firms ’ investment and RD 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 RD? ③ To find out, the researchers controlled for various 10 that might make firms more likely to invest—like size, industry, 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. ① The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors 13 to “less codified