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2016 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试
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
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