MBA联考-英语(二)真题2016年

MBA联考-英语(二)真题2016年
Section ⅠUse of English
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.
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.
1.
A.why
B.how
C.where
D.when
答案：B
[解答] 根据空白处下文too的提示，答案应该在上文找到“相似性”的线索。

上文提到work differently 时，副词differently指“不同的方式”，所以此处应该是回指“工作方式”。

2.
A.In return
B.In particular
C.In contrast
D.In conclusion
答案：B
[解答] 四个选项对上文和本句的逻辑关系要求精确。

空白之后的句子和上文表达的意义相同，都是“快乐环境中的企业投入多”，所以排除了A和C两个“对比”选项；意义相近，但是第二句比第一句的内容更加具体，从“投入多”进一步到“投入研发多”，说明“递进”关系的存在，故排除D。

3.
A.necessary
B.famous
C.perfect
D.sufficient
答案：A
[解答] 空白处后的介词for和四个选项没有强制性的搭配关系；从逻辑上讲，“长远思维方式”与“未来投资计划”之间存在的意义关联就是判断标准。

B和C都是主观描述词，无法解释前后的关系；A是起码要求，D是程度要求。

即“未来投资”起码需要进行“长远打算”。

4.
A.individualism
B.realism
C.optimism
D.modernism
答案：C
[解答] 空白处后面的并列连词and值得关注，它连接两个近义关系词。

此外，下文的修饰句that come with happiness很重要，说明选项与“快乐”伴随出现。

所以C是唯一选择。

5.
A.miss
B.echo
C.spoil
D.change
答案：D
[解答] 从结构来看，第一段出现过influence the way firms work，与此处______way companies invested 的结构基本一致，可以判定空白处的动词应该与influence对等。

A和C均表达反义，可直接排除；B的要求是，下文的方式在上文提及，现在是重复，超出上文的提示，故排除。

6.
A.imagined
B.measured
C.assumed
D.invented
答案：B
[解答] 空白处后面的介词表明一个被动结构的存在；正常语序是“盖洛普的民意调查______人们的平均幸福水平”，只有B可以进入选择范围。

7.
A.Sure
B.Odd
C.Unfortunate
D.Often
答案：A
[解答] 空白处在句首位置，意味着它是连接上一句和下一句之间的逻辑桥梁。

下文表明幸福水平与投资额度之间存在关联，与上文的意义一致，所以空白处需要表示“递进”的关系词，B和C均表示“相反”的关系，故直接排除；D则表达“时间”关系，也不符合。

8.
A.divided。