5. What in fact was Elizabeth’s great effort in
the medical school?
A. To study hard to complete her studies.
B. To refuse to pretend to be a boy.
C. To realize her idea of being a doctor.
D. To struggle for the position of the women.
B
A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing
at the proper time and is never late in keeping an appointment. The
unpunctual man, on the other hand, never does what he has to do at the proper time.
He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost
thing may be found again, but lost time can never be regained. Time is more valuable
than material things. In fact, time is life itself. The unpunctual man is forever
wasting and mismanaging his most valuable asset(财产)as well as others’.
The unpunctual person is always complaining that he finds no time to answer letters,
or return calls or keep appointments promptly. But the man who really has a great
deal to do is very careful of his time and seldom complains of want of it. He knows
that he cannot get through his huge amount of work unless he faithfully keeps every
piece of work when it has to be attended to.
Failure to be punctual in keeping one’s appointments
is a sign of disrespect towards others. If a person is invited to dinner and arrives
later than the appointed time, he keeps all the other guests waiting for him. Usually
this will be regarded as a great disrespect to the host and all other guests present.
Unpunctuality, moreover, is very harmful when it
comes to do one’s duty, whether public or private. Imagine how it would be if those
who are put in chare of important tasks failed to be at their proper places at the
appointed time. A man who is known to be habitually unpunctual is never trusted
by his friends or fellow men.
