考研英语二英语知识运用练习试题 英语知识运用练习 Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) Happy people work differently. Theyre 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 paper.__2__, firms in happy places spend more on RD (research and development). Thats because happiness is linked to the kind of longerterm thinking__3__for making investments for the future. The researchers wanted to know if the__4__and inclination for risktaking 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 RD intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were__8__.But is it really happiness thats linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities__9__why firms there spend more on RD? 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 population. The 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 codified decision making process and the possible presence of younger and less__14__managers who are more likely ...
