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2016年考研英语二试题真题 SectionIUse ofEnglish Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,CorD ontheANSWER SHEET.(10points) 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 firms work, too.Companies located in place 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-termthinking 3formaking investment forthe future. Theresearcherswantedtoknow ifthe 4 and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would 5 the way companies invested. So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness 6by 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 that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities 9 why firms there spend more on RD? To find out,the researches controlled for various 10 that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry , and sales-and-and for indicators that a place was 11to live in, like growth in wages or population. They 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 confined decision making process” and the possible presence of younger and less 14 managers who are more likely to be influencedby sentiment.’’Therelationship was 15 stronger in placeswherehappiness was spread more 16. Firms seem to invest more in places.17 this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a l