考研英语二真题及答案.pdf

考研英语二真题及答案--第1页 2016 年考研英语二真题及答案 (共 11 页) --本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可-- --内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小-- 考研英语二真题及答案--第1页 考研英语二真题及答案--第2页 2016 年考研英语二真题及答案 Section 1 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. (10 points) Happy people work differently. T hey’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness might influence__1__firm’s work, too. Companies located in places with happier people invest more, a ording to a recent research , 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 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 . 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 is it 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 researchers controlled for various__10__that might make firms more likely to invest – like size, industry, and sales – and for indicators that a place