A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the correct time and is never late for anything.
An unpunctual man never does what he has to do at the right 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 got back. Time is more useful than material things. In fact, time is life itself. An unpunctual man is always wasting his most important things as well as others'. An unpunctual person is always saying unhappily that he finds no time to answer letters or return calls. But the man who really has much to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not finish all his work unless he carefully does every piece of work.
Being unpunctual is the sign of disrespect (不尊重_) towards others. If a person is invited to
dinner and arrives later than the time when he should be there, he keeps all the other guests (客人)
waiting for him. Usually this will be thought as a great disrespect to the host and all the other guests.
Not like a punctual person, an unpunctual one can't do his duty wonderfully, whether it is public or personal. Imagine how it would be if those who should do important tasks failed to be on time. A man who is known to be often unpunctual is never believed by his friends or fellow men.
【小题1】The Chinese meaning of the word "punctual" in this passage is probably “      ”.                                                                      

阅读下列短文,从所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.
A young man once asked Albert Einstein, the great scientist,  1  the secret of success（成功） is. The scientist told him that the secret of success is  2  work. A few days later the young man asked him the same question again. Einstein was very  3 . He did not say  4 , but wrote  5  words on a piece of paper and handed it  6  the young man. The young man looked at the piece of paper.  7  it was written: A=X+Y+Z.
“What does this mean?” asked the young man.
“A means success,” explained the old scientist. “X stands for（代表） hard work, Y stands for good methods（方法）, and Z…, Z means stopping  8 and getting down to work.”