Fill in each blank with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
It was midnight and a train was______ (1) (race) to its destination with a howl in the silence of the night. A man _______ (2) (sleep) with his head on the side window of the train.
Suddenly, he ______ (3) (wake) up from his sleep. He jumped from his seat and pulled the chain_____(4) (hang) just over his head.
The train moved for some more distance and _______(5) (stop) suddenly. The employees and other passengers on the train rushed to the compartment to know what ______(6) (happen)
"There is a crack in the rail a few meters from here !!! If the train____(7) (go) over it, there is surely going to be a mishap," the man said quietly.
"In this dark night, how ____(8) (do) you see the crack which is far in front ?” someone asked.
He said that he ______(9) (hear) the vibrating sound from the track change so drastically that he recognised it was due to the crack in the railway line. The man who _____(10) (save) many lives that night was none other than the best engineer that India has ever produced, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya or Sir M.Visvesvaraya.
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