6.    A    7.    C    8.    C    9.    D    10.    B
11.    D    12.    D    13.    B    14.    A    15.    C
16. D    17.    B    18.    A    19.    C    20.    A

 
2016年考研英语（二）Cloze Test
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. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness might influence__1__firm’s 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__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 to be influenced by sentiment.” The relationship was__15__stronger in places where happiness was spread more__16__.Firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.
    __17__ this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term view, the authors believe it at least__18__at that possibility. It’s not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help__19__how executives think about the future. “It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and__20__R&D more than the average,” said one researcher.
 
1. [A] why             [B] where         [C] how         [D] when  
2. [A] In return         [B] In particular     [C] In contrast     [D] In conclusion 
3. [A] sufficient         [B] famous         [C] perfect         [D] necessary 
4. [A] individualism     [B] modernism     [C] optimism     [D] realism 
5. [A] echo             [B] miss         [C] spoil         [D] change  
6. [A] imagined         [B] measured     [C] invented     [D] assumed 
7. [A] Sure             [B] Odd         [C] Unfortunate     [D] Often  
8. [A] advertised     [B] divided         [C] overtaxed     [D] headquartered 
9. [A] explain         [B] overstate     [C] summarize     [D] emphasize 
10. [A] stages         [B] factors         [C] levels         [D] methods 
11. [A] desirable     [B] sociable     [C] reputable     [D] reliable 
12. [A] resumed     [B] held         [C]emerged     [D] broke 
13. [A] attribute         [B] assign         [C] transfer         [D]compare 
14. [A] serious         [B] civilized     [C] ambitious     [D]experienced 
15. [A] thus         [B] instead         [C] also         [D] never 
16. [A] rapidly         [B] regularly     [C] directly         [D] equally 
17. [A] After         [B] Until         [C] While         [D] Since 
18. [A] arrives         [B] jumps         [C] hints         [D] strikes
19. [A] shape         [B] rediscover     [C] simplify     [D] share
20. [A] pray for         [B] lean towards [C] give away     [D] send out

1.    C    2.    B    3.    D    4.    C    5.    D
6.    B    7.    A    8.    D    9.    A    10.    B
11.    A    12.    B    13.    A    14.    D    15.    C
16.    D    17.    C    18.    C    19.    A    20.    B