Section I Use 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. (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 influence1 firms work, too.

　　Companies located in place 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 investment 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 happiness6 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 were8. But it is 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 researches controlled for various 10 that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry , and sales-and-and for indicators that a place was11 to live in, like growth in wages or population. They 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 confined decision making process” and the possible presence of younger and less 14 managers who are more likely to be influenced by sentiment.’’ The relationship was15stronger in places where happiness was spread more16. Firms seem to invest more in places.

　　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 18at that possibility. It’s not hard to imagine that local culture and sentiment would help 19how executives think about the future. It surely seems plausible that happy people would be more forward –thinking and creative and 20R&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 act