Question

The Day People Started Talking

My journey home from school is nothing special. I usually find a seat and start reading or texting my friends, making sure, like everyone else, not to look at other people. Then, twenty minutes later, I get off.

But last Tuesday was different. I was happily looking out of the window when the train suddenly stopped. This wasn’t usual. Then after about five minutes, I noticed people were starting to get a bit upset. Fifteen minutes later, people started getting more and more upset. Then the announcement (廣播) came: “We are sorry to announce that this train is delayed. A train has broken down in front of us.”

There was a loud groan (嘆息) throughout the carriage but soon something unexpected happened: all the complete strangers started talking to each other. At first, everyone just complained about the trains, but then people started talking about real things. I started chatting to a couple of young tourists sitting opposite me. Next, I really surprised myself by talking to a businesswoman. Business people are a lot cooler than I thought. Then I decided to get up and go for a walk down the train. I met a woman who had been a student at my school seven years before.

People offered each other food and drink. A young woman took her guitar and soon we were singing along. While we were singing, we heard there was a sick boy in another part of the train who needed help, and the woman from my school jumped into action. It turned out she was a nurse, and when she came back she was welcomed as a hero.

Then, after two and a half hours, we started moving again. Everyone cheered and some people, complete strangers three hours before, even hugged.

I took the train again on Wednesday but none of my new “friends” were there. Although people were polite, they weren’t nearly as friendly as the people the day before had been. I’ll never forget the day the train stopped and people started talking.

1.What happened after the announcement? （ ）

A.People got upset and started texting their friends.

B.The children started playing with their phones.

C.The workers started offering food and drink.

D.People started talking to each other.

2.The woman from the writer’s school jumped into action to ______. （ ）

A.play the guitar and sing

B.help a sick boy on the train

C.go for a walk down the train

D.get off and take another train

3.The writer will never forget last Tuesday because ______. （ ）

A.strangers on the train were friendly to each other

B.a nurse saved a boy’s life on the train just in time

C.he learned something new about business people

D.it was a good opportunity to make new friends

Answer 1