2016考研英语二真题与答案.doc

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 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 happiness inequality. __17__ th