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2016 年考研英语（二）真题
1、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 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 that come with happiness would （5） the way companies
invested. So they compared . 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 is it
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