1. But it’s easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards.

　　2. The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant.

　　3. It may then take us a long time to render it intelligent by loading in the right software or by altering the architecture but that too will happen.

　　4. As the intelligence of robots increase to match that of humans and as their cost declines through economies of scale we may use them to expand our frontiers.

　　5. Further ahead, by a combination of the great wealth this new age will bring and the technology it will provide, the construction of a vast, man-created world in space, home to thousands or millions of people, will be within our power.

　　6. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground vibrations.

　　7. If they are not sincere and do not practise what they preach, their children may grow confused and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.

　　8. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

　　9. “In Japan, a most competitive society with stronger discipline than ours.” Says Isaac Stern. “children are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music.”

　　10. What does the phrase ‘learning to use a computer’ mean? It sounds like ‘learning to drive a car’; that is , it sounds as if there is some set of definite skills that, once acquired, enable one to use a computer.

　　1、但是如果對(duì)績(jī)效差的業(yè)績(jī)也進(jìn)行獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)或者讓人們對(duì)獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)有太多的預(yù)期，是很容易抹殺創(chuàng)造性的。

　　2、冰箱對(duì)環(huán)境的影響是顯而易見(jiàn)的，而它對(duì)促進(jìn)人們幸福的貢獻(xiàn)卻是微不足道的。

　　3、裝載正確的軟件來(lái)使它智能化可能要花費(fèi)我們很長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間，或者也可以改變它的結(jié)構(gòu)，但同樣的情況也會(huì)發(fā)生。

　　4、由于機(jī)器人的智能增長(zhǎng)到了人腦的程度，加上通過(guò)規(guī)模經(jīng)濟(jì)降低了生產(chǎn)成本，我們可以使用它們來(lái)拓展前沿。

　　5、在將來(lái)，通過(guò)新一代人創(chuàng)造的財(cái)富和科技，建設(shè)一座可以容納千百萬(wàn)人的人造大型太空站也是可以的。

　　6、后來(lái)，人們?cè)囍�把建筑物從其基地上撐起�?lái)，在建筑物和地基間灌入橡膠和鋼鐵以減少地表震動(dòng)的影響。

　　7、如果他們對(duì)于自己吹捧的東西不認(rèn)真對(duì)待也不去執(zhí)行的話，他們的孩子將在糊里糊涂中長(zhǎng)大，并且當(dāng)他們對(duì)自己進(jìn)行一些思考的時(shí)候，他們會(huì)在情感上有不安全感并認(rèn)為他們?cè)馐芰四撤N程度的欺騙。

　　8、因?yàn)樗�有這些原因，要進(jìn)行有效讀報(bào)的話，既要得到你需要的信息又不浪費(fèi)時(shí)間，需要選擇和應(yīng)用良好的閱讀技能和自我了解。

　　9、“在日本，是一個(gè)比我們更有紀(jì)律性和競(jìng)爭(zhēng)性的社會(huì)。”Isaac Stern說(shuō)。“孩子們每天都準(zhǔn)備在各個(gè)領(lǐng)域內(nèi)沖刺極限，包括音樂(lè)。”

　　10、“學(xué)習(xí)使用計(jì)算機(jī)”這個(gè)短語(yǔ)是什么意思呢?聽(tīng)起來(lái)像是“學(xué)習(xí)駕駛汽車”也就是說(shuō)，好象里面有一套確定的技能，一旦獲得，就會(huì)使用計(jì)算機(jī)了。