文档介绍：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. 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 places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research , firms in happy places spend more on R&D (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 e with happiness would__5__the panies invested. So pared . cities' average happiness__6__by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.
__7__enough, firms' investment and R&D 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 R&D? 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