專四閱讀長難句小測（35）

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

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

　　173. 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.

　　174. 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.

　　175. 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.

　　171、但是如果對績效差的業(yè)績也進(jìn)行獎勵或者讓人們對獎勵有太多的預(yù)期，是很容易抹殺創(chuàng)造性的。

　　172、冰箱對環(huán)境的影響是顯而易見的，而它對促進(jìn)人們幸福的貢獻(xiàn)卻是微不足道的。

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

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

　　175、在將來，通過新一代人創(chuàng)造的財(cái)富和科技，建設(shè)一座可以容納千百萬人的人造大型太空站也是可以的。