2016年入学MBA管理类联考英语(二)真题、答案及解析.pdf

绝密★启用前 2016 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 管理类专业硕士学位联考 英语试卷 1．考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。 2．答题前，考生将答题卡上的“姓名” 、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚，并与准考证 上的一致。 3．选择题的答案须用2B 铅笔填涂在答题卡上，其它笔填涂的或做在试卷或其它 类型答题卡上的答案无效。 4 ．非选择题一律用蓝色或黑色签字笔在答题纸上按规定要求作答，凡做在试卷 上或未做在指定位置的答案无效。 5．交卷时，请配合监考人员验收，并请监考人员在准考证相应位置签字（作为 考生交卷的凭据）。否则，所产生的一切后果由考生自负。 姓名：_____________ 准考证号：____________________ Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET . (10 points) Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research suggest 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 ). 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 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 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