三、语篇填空。(2025·山西中考改编)
阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词,每词限用一次。
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My journey home from school is nothing special. I get on the train, find a seat and start reading, like everyone else, not looking at other people. Then, twenty 1. later, I get off.
But last Tuesday was different. I was looking out of the window when the train 2. stopped. This wasn’t unusual so I didn’t think much of it. Then after about half an hour, some people started speaking to 3. and looking around. I noticed they were starting to get a bit angry — the train still didn’t move. The longer the train stood, the 4. people got angry. Finally we heard “Sorry to announce we are going to be here for a long time.”
There was a loud groan (叹气) in the train, but then something unexpected 5. . Complete strangers started talking to one another. At first, everyone just complained about the train, but then people started talking about their own life. A young 6. came to me. He was travelling here. I introduced some places he should visit. He felt pleased and seemed to 7. the problem that he had to wait on the train. Next, I started a conversation with a businesswoman. It was wonderful to talk to her. I was really 8. to find I had been wrong all my life — business people are a lot cooler than I thought. Every weekend, she spends her time in climbing mountains. She even dreams of climbing Qomolangma. 9. we were talking, a woman returned from helping someone sick in another part of the train. She was 10. as a hero by all of the people.
Then, after two and a half hours, we started moving again. Everyone cheered and some people, complete strangers three hours ago, even hugged.

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