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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 ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Happy people work differently. They ’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, 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 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 m
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