2016级硕士研究生入学考试 英语二真题.doc

2016级硕士研究生入学考试 英语二真题.doc2016年硕士研究生入学考试英语二真题
说明:由于2016年试题为一题多卷,因此现场试卷中的选择题部分,不同考生有不同顺序。请在核对答案时注意题目和选项的具体内容。
Section I Use of English

Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on 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 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 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 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 liv