Australians are usually conscious of time and tend to run their lives by the clock. They expect people to arrive __1__ time for appointments and they also expect people who are unable to keep appointments to let them know in __2__. Those who consistently arrive late or fail to keep appointments are __3__ to be unreliable and to lack __4__ for other people. In Australia those who gain the reputation __5__ being unreliable would find it difficult to retain a job or keep friends.
This emphasis of time is the result of the material benefits gained from living in an advanced technological society. In Sydney some people live up to 80 kilometers from the place __6__ they work and they can only do this because there are fast trains that __7__ them to travel from home to work relatively quickly. But in order to catch these trains and get to work on time they must __8__ the clock very carefully.
Both the telephone and the motor car provide Australians with rapid means of communications and enable them to __9__ more tasks in the day __10__ they could if they had to walk long distances or carry out all their business by letter. 来源：www.examda.com 1. A) byB) toC) atD) on