奇速英语

Jiang Zhaopeng, an 18-year-old student, faced a life-or-death test on Saturday—not in an exam hall, but in the backseat of a car, where he performed life-saving CPR on a classmate who went into a heart attack.

Jiang and his classmate were heading to take the spring college entrance exam when the emergency happened unexpectedly.

At about 8:10 a.m., the two got into a taxi to the testing site. Just a minute later, Jiang’s classmate fell onto his knee. “I thought he was just tired at first,” Jiang said. But then the classmate began breathing with difficulty and kicking the front seat before suddenly going limp (瘫软). He soon stopped breathing.

Jiang remembered the first aid lessons from school. He quickly laid his classmate down and began CPR.

“Go to the hospital,” Jiang told the driver, Wang Tao. Wang called the local traffic police and sped to the hospital, running six red lights and arriving in just seven minutes—half the usual time.

Jiang didn’t tell his school about the whole thing until his classmate was safe with doctors. He then rushed to the exam site, but arrived too late to take the 9 a.m. Chinese language test.

Later, doctors said his classmate would be okay without any brain damage (损伤). “The first four minutes of CPR in the car were very important,” said doctors.

Though he missed the exam, Jiang said he had no regrets about his decision. “Exams can be taken again, but a life cannot,” he said.