1、江西研视界教育咨询有限公司Section 1 Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numberedblank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, an
2、dwilling to take greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness mightinfluence__1__firm’s work, too.Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to arecent research paper.__2__, firms in happy places spend more on R&D (
3、research anddevelopment). That’s because happiness is linked to the kind of longer-termthinking__3__for making investments for the future.The researchers wanted to know if the__4__and inclination for risk-taking thatcome with happiness would__5__the way
4、companies invested. So they compared U.S.cities’ average happiness__6__by Gallup polling with the investment activity ofpublicly traded firms in those areas.__7__enough, firms’ investment and R&D intensity were correlated with thehappiness of the area in
5、 which they were__8__.But is it really happiness that’slinked to investment, or could something else about happier cities__9__why firmsthere spend more on R&D? To find out, the researchers controlled for江西研视界教育咨询有限公司various__10__that might make firms mor
6、e likely to invest – like size, industry,and sales – and for indicators that a place was__11__to live in, like growth inwages or population. The link between happiness and investment generally__12__evenafter accounting for these things.The correlation be
7、tween happiness and investment was particularly strong foryounger firms, which the authors__13__to “less codified decision making process”and the possible presence of “younger and less__14__managers who are more likelyto be influenced by sentiment.” The
8、relationship was__15__stronger in places wherehappiness was spread more__16__.Firms seem to invest more in places where most peopleare relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.__17__ this doesn’t p
