2 . It was a _________ night and I was in a foreign country. Though I knew everything here well, I might still need other people to help me with _________.

One day, I took a midnight _________from the capital to the city where I lived. I was trying not to sleep as I would be home towards 2 am, but funnily enough I fell asleep and closed my eyes only when the train passed the _________where I was due (预计) to get off. The controllers told me to leave at the next station and wait for the train to my city at 4 am. I stood at the station but it looked like it would be _________ to wait there alone.

One of the controllers _________there got off with me, saying he felt it was not safe to leave me there alone. He invited me to get into his car because it was freezing outside. I was a bit doubtful, but I decided to _________him. Entering the car, we started talking. I told him that I had often passed this station, but never visited the city. So he offered me a _________around the town. I was completely shocked, but did not feel anything _________. He drove me around and at about 4 am he sent me back to the station.

His help with the emergency (突发事件) made the night unforgettable and full of __________. What I could do was just passing on the kindness in my life.

3 . Besides regularly donating blood, Ashish, the 48-year-old surgeon also encourages others to do the same through Bloodline, a nonprofit association he founded in 2017.

According to Ashish, who has been a doctor at a United Family Healthcare hospital in Shanghai since 2007, Bloodline is aimed at creating a blood bank that can help the community as well as individuals with rare blood types who face an urgent need for blood.

“My father, a doctor who specialized in treating chest infections, only charged those who could afford the medical treatment. For those who couldn’t pay, he never mentioned money and instead gave them the drugs for free.” he says.

During his growing up years, Ashish was also exposed to social services, helping collect food and money for a local children’s hospital.

Ashish first donated blood when he was 18. After arriving in China in 2003, Ashish learned mandarin at Fudan University in Shanghai before becoming a graduate student in general surgery at Shanghai Huashan Hospital. Here, he continued participating in blood donation drives as his way of giving back to society. In 2011, he became a volunteer at the Shanghai Blood Center where he helped raise public awareness about blood donations.

The idea of setting up an online community for this cause came in 2013 as he believed that there should be a group of expats who get together voluntarily to work with patients and organize regular gatherings to raise public awareness. In 2017, this community was officially registered as Bloodline.

“Our organization currently has a presence in 14 cities, including Beijing, Dalian, and Guangzhou. It’s often a small group of people in each city but they can help a great deal.” says Ashish, who holds the roles of ambassador and director of the foreign volunteers group at the Shanghai Blood Center.

Ashish has also placed greater emphasis on raising awareness of their causes in children, noting that people from the younger generations are more receptive to the idea of donating blood. Bloodline is currently planning to launch a junior club within the organization where youth will get to tour blood donation centers, witness how the blood is processed, who the end users are, and the difference that they can make to the lives of those in need of blood.

“We come from different countries and have different skin colors, but the blood streaming through our bodies is the same. When there is a need to roll up sleeves and save lives, we will step forward bravely.” he says.