考研英语（二）完型填空真题及答案来源：文都教育 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 suggest that happiness might influence 1 firms 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 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 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 1 0 that might make firms more likely to invest – like size, industry, and sales – and for indicators that a place was 1 1 to live in, like growth in wages or population. The link between happiness and investment generally 1 2 even after accounting for these things.The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors 1 3 to “less codified decision making process”and the possible presence of “younger ...
