8.【答案】a
【解析】考查冠词。此处为短语have a wonderful life:生活很精彩,故用a。
9.【答案】and
10.【答案】suddenly
【解析】考查副词。修饰动词realise,需用副词,故用suddenly。句意:他的话触动了我。我突然意识到家人是世界上最重要的。我应该花更多的时间与他们呆在一起。
三、完形填空
(改编自江苏省盐城中学2016届高三下学期2月考试)As is newly discovered, happy people also work in a different style. 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 willingness 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 degree were connected 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.
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