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第60课：Too early and too late 太早和太晚
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采编： gao yun
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2007-06-04
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图忆将课文转变为图形，即将课文中的关键词抽出来，用图标、照片和图画表示，将其在平面上艺术地布局，再用一条曲线将其串连起来，形成一幅画面，从而直观地表达了课文的全貌。学习者的直观思维能力和全局控制能力将由此得到极大锻炼。
读图方法：从实心圆点开始，顺着曲线念，一直到该曲线终结为止。观察带有文字的图大约三到五遍，即可利用不带文字的思维导图进行复述甚至背诵。
课文原文：
Punctuality is a necessary habit in all public affairs in civilized society.
Without it, nothing could ever be brought to a conclusion; everything would be
in a state of chaos. Only in a sparsely-populated rural community is it possible
to disregard it. In ordinary living, there can be some tolerance of
unpunctuality. The intellectual, who is working on some abstruse problem, has
everything coordinated and organized for the matter in hand. He is therefore
forgiven if late for a dinner party. But people are often reproached for
unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine. It is hard for
energetic, quick-minded people to waste time, so they are often tempted to
finish a job before setting out to keep an appointment. If no accidents occur on
the way, like punctured tyres, diversions of traffic, sudden descent of fog,
they will be on time. They are often more industrious, useful citizens than
those who are never late. The over-punctual can be as much a trial to others as
the unpunctual. The guest who arrives half an hour too soon is the greatest
nuisance. Some friends of my family had this irritating habit. The only thing to
do was ask them to come half an hour later than the other guests. Then they
arrived just when we wanted them.
If you are catching a train, it is always better to be comfortably early than
even a fraction of a minute too late. Although being early may mean wasting a
tittle time, this will be less than if you miss the train and have to wait an
hour or more for the next one; and you avoid the frustration of arriving at the
very moment when the train is drawing out of the station and being unable to get
on it. An even harder situation is to be on the platform in good time for a
train and still to see it go off without you. Such an experience befell a
certain young girl the first time she was travelling alone.
She entered the station twenty minutes before the train was due, since her
parents had impressed upon her that it would be unforgivable to miss it and
cause the friends with whom she was going to stay to make two journeys to meet
her. She gave her luggage to a porter and showed him her ticket. To her horror
he said that she was two hours too soon. She felt in her handbag for the piece
of paper on which her father had written down all the details of the journey and
gave it to the porter. He agreed that a train did come into the station at the
time on the paper and that it did stop, but only to take on mail, not
passengers. The girl asked to see a timetable, feeling sure that her father
could not have made such a mistake. The porter went to fetch one and arrived
back with the station master, who produced it with a flourish and pointed out a
microscopic ‘o’ beside the time of the arrival of the train at his station; this
little ‘o’ indicated that the train only stopped for mail. Just as that moment
the train came into the station. The girl, tears streaming down her face, begged
to be allowed to slip into the guard's van. But the station master was adamant:
rules could not be broken. And she had to watch that train disappear towards her
destination while she was left behind.
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最后更新 ( 2007-06-04 )
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