Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.

The word 'appalling' means _____.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us in to some corner of the world where people are not interested in minute and seconds. The unpunctuality of the Orient, for example, is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-time and regular train service. For a modern American Englishman waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accept the blank hours with resignation even with satisfaction. He has not lost the fine part of doing nothing. Our notion of time as a collection of minutes, each of which must be filled with some business or amusement, wholly alien to the Oriental, just as it was wholly alien to the Greek. For the man who lives in a pre-industrial world, time moves at a slow and easy pace; he does not care about each minute, for the good reason that he has not been made conscious of the existence of minutes.