Here’s the completed extract using the past simple form of the verbs in brackets:
Detective Hercule Poirot 1 got on the Orient Express in Constantinople. A lot of people 2 were on the train and Hercule 3 did not have a compartment. Luckily, one of the passengers 4 did not arrive, so Poirot 5 took his.
During the second night, Poirot 6 woke up because of a loud noise in the next compartment. Then Mr Ratchett, the man next door, 7 spoke to the conductor. After 8 not sleeping all night, he 9 asked the conductor for a bottle of mineral water and when the conductor 10 left, he 11 went back to bed. Later, he 12 heard someone at his door. When he 13 opened the door, he 14 did not see anybody except a woman in a red kimono in the distance.
The next morning, Mr Ratchett 15 was dead.
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