2016年考研英语二真题解析---副本.docx

2016考研英语二真题答案解析完整版（跨考教育）Section 1 Use of EnglishDirections: 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)1.Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing totake greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness might influence__1how__firm’s work, too.2.Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper.__2_ In particular_, 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__necessaryfor making investments for the future. 3. The researchers wanted to know if the__4_optimism_and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would__5change__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. 4.__7_Sure_enough, firms’ investment and RD intensitywere correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were__8headquartered__.But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities__9_explain_why firms there spend more on RD? To find out, the researchers controlled for various__10factors__that might make firms more likely to invest – like size, industry, and sales – and for indicators that a place was__11desirable__to live in, like growth in wages or population. The link between happiness and investmentgenerally__12_held_even after accounting for these things. 5.The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors__13attribute__to “less codified decision making process” and the possible presence of “younger and less__14experienced__managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.” The relationship was__15also__stronger in places where happiness was spread more__16_equa