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英语二真题 2016 答案 篇一： 2016 年考研英语二真题及答案】 lass=txt 英语(二) 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) happy people work differently. theyre 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 places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper.__2__, firms in happy places spend more on rd (research and development). thats because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-term thinking__3__for making investments 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 thats linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities__9__why firms there spend more on rd? 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. the 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 codified 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 happine