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  3. Directions: Read the following text. Cho

Directions: Read the following text. Cho

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问题 Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the 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 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.
选项 1. ______ A.why B.where C.how D.when
答案C
解析考查宾语从句及上下文逻辑关系。空格处应填入一个宾语从句的引导词，作influence的宾语。上文提到幸福的人的工作方式不同，他们工作效率更高、更富有创造性，也愿意冒更大的风险。这里讲的是快乐对公司的影响，即“一项新的研究表明，快乐也可能会影响到公司的运转”。how可以引导宾语从句，表示方式，意为“怎样，如何”，符合上下文语境及语法结构，因此C项正确。
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