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Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research sugge

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问题     Happy people work differently. They’re more productive, more creative, and willing to take greater risks. And new research suggests that happiness might influence【C1】________firm’s work, too.
    Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper.【C2】________, 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【C3】________for making investments for the future.
    The researchers wanted to know if the【C4】________and inclination for risk-taking that come with happiness would【C5】________the way companies invested. So they compared U.S. cities’ average happiness【C6】________by Gallup polling with the investment activity of publicly traded firms in those areas.
    【C7】________enough, firms’ investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were【C8】________. But is it really happiness that’s linked to investment, or could something else about happier cities【C9】________why firms there spend more on R&D? To find out, the researchers controlled for various【C10】________that might make firms more likely to invest—like size, industry, and sales—and for indicators that a place was【C11】________to live in, like growth in wages or population. The link between happiness and investment generally【C12】________even after accounting for these things.
    The correlation between happiness and investment was particularly strong for younger firms, which the authors【C13】________to "less codified decision making process" and the possible presence of "younger and less【C14】________managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment." The relationship was【C15】________ stronger in places where happiness was spread more【C16】________. Firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.
    【C17】________this doesn’t prove that happiness causes firms to invest more or to take a longer-term view, the authors believe it at least【C18】________at that possibility. It’s not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help【C19】________how executives think about the future. "It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward-thinking and creative and【C20】________R&D more than the average," said one researcher.
【C8】
选项 A、advertised
B、divided
C、overtaxed
D、headquartered
答案D
解析 本题考查动词辨析且为被动语态形式。本动词的主语是代词they，指代之前的firms (企业)，本动词所在的句子是一个由in which引导的定语从句，in which相当于where，而本定语从句的先行词是the area。因此本动词要表达的意思就是firms(企业)在the area(区域)干什么。A项advertised(广告)表达的是“这些企业在这些区域被宣传”；B项divided(分离)表达的是“这些企业在这些区域被分离”；C项overtaxed(过度征税)表达的是“这些企业在这些区域被过度征税”，这三个选项所表达的动作与文章主题均无关系，属于无关词，予以排除。选项D项headquartered(设立总部)所表达的意思是“这些企业在这些区域被设立总部”，即“这些企业的总部位于这些区域”，符合文章主题。同时本题也可以运用复现结构来确定答案，此前文章有两处已知信息表达了firms与areas的关系，从上述复现结构可以看出，企业就是位于这些区域(地方)，与该意思一致的就是“这些企业的总部位于这些区域”，因此D项headquartered(设立总部)是最佳答案。
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