1. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania advised the Metlife insurance company to hire a special group of job applicants who tested high on optimism, although they had failed the normal aptitude (才能) test.
    宾夕法尼亚大学的马丁·塞利格曼建议梅特莱夫保险公司雇用一批特别的求职者，他们经测试证实有很乐观的心态，虽然在一般能力测验上不及格。

2. “I kept playing the same disk in my CD player for a whole day once just to test her because she was so timid,” says Noel. “It took her until dinner time to finally change it.”
    "我曾从早到晚用CD机播放同一张碟，就是为了试试她，因为她太羞怯了，" 诺埃尔说，"直到那天晚饭时，她才终于改变了她的羞怯。"

3. Convenience is, however, in all affairs of life an execrable test of value.
    然而在生活事务的各方面, 投合是可恶的实用准则.

4. Change your study habits. Have you sometimes felt the urge to cheat when you didn't study well enough for a test?
    改变学习习惯。当你学得不好，不能很好地应对考试时，你是否有过作弊的冲动呢？

5. Compared with salesmen who passed the aptitude test but scored high in pessimism, this group made 21 percent more sales in their first year and 57 percent more in their second.
    与另一些通过了能力测试但具有悲观心态的推销员相比，这些人第一年的销售就超出了21%，而第二年更超出了57%。

6. Notes there are now work-stations that enable engineers to design, test and produce chips right on their desks, much the way an editor creates a newsletter on a Macintosh.
    注意到，现在有些计算机工作站使工程技术人员可以在他们的办公桌上设计、试验和生产芯片，就像一位编辑在苹果机上编出一份时事通讯一样。

7. In those days people seldom did experiment to test their ideas.
    在那个时候, 人们很少做实验以检验他们的想法.

8. I´m glad about your passing the test.
    你考及格了, 我很高兴.

9. It too would destroy bacteria in a test tube.
    这种霉菌在试管里也同样能杀灭细菌。

10. It is a sign, in short, of emotional intelligence. And it doesn't show up on an IQ test.
    简言之，这是情感智能的体现，而这是在智力测试里表现不出来的。