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考研英語(yǔ)二英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用練習(xí)試題 英語(yǔ)知識(shí)運(yùn)用練習(xí) 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 , 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 e with happiness would__5__the way panies invested. So they pared . 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 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. Th