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考研英语二真题及参考答案--第1页 考研英语二真题及参考答案 真 题 Section I Use of English Directions： Rea 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。 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 inhappy places spend more on RD(research and development) 。That’s because happiness is linke to the kin of longerterm thinking 3 for making investment for the future。 The researchers wanted to know if the 4 and inclination for risktaking that come with happiness woul 5 the way companies investe 。 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 an RD intensity were 第 1 页 考研英语二真题及参考答案--第1页 考研英语二真题及参考答案--第2页 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 salesandand for indicators that a place was 11 to 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