①Japan started putting nuclear-contaminated water (核污水) into the sea on Aug 24th. History will never forget this day.

②A tsunami (海啸) hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (福岛第一核电站) in Japan in 2011. It broke the nuclear reactors (核反应堆), so the reactors became very hot. Since then, workers have been using a lot of water to keep them cool. After touching the reactors, the water has a lot of radioactive material (放射性物质). So it was named nuclear-contaminated water.

③However, Nuclear wastewater (核废水) is different. It’s the waste from a normal power plant. The rules on whether or not the wastewater can be put into the sea are clear. So processed (处理过的) nuclear wastewater is often seen as safe. But nuclear-contaminated water is not.

④ ▲ The country says that their water is wastewater and it goes through a special process. However, their water is actually nuclear-contaminated and has more than 60 kinds of radioactive materials. “The materials will be bad for people’s health,” Wang You, a Chinese ocean scientist, told CCTV News.

⑤Where is the water going? It will go to:

● the middle of the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) in 57 days;

● the other side of the Pacific Ocean in 3 years (such as the US and Canada);

● every sea in the world in 10 years.

⑥The oceans are not Japan’s trash bin. We only have one earth. We must protect it instead of hurting it.

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Think of somebody you really admire. You will probably find that their success didn’t come easily. As “Father of Hybrid Rice”, Yuan Longping got over great difficulties and spent his whole life working to reduce world hunger and helping to feed the country with the largest population.

Wu Mengchao, the “Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery (肝胆外科)”, focused on saving people’s lives for nearly eighty years. He performed more than 16,000 operations (手术) during his life. Wu once said, “It would my greatest happiness if I could work at the operating table until my dying day.”

In 1969, in order to solve the problem of treating malaria (疟疾), Tu Youyou and her teammates performed different kinds of experiments. However, the results were disappointing. Instead of giving up, they kept trying. Finally, in 1972, they made it! In 2015, at the age of 85, she received Nobel Prize.

Sometimes, their success was a surprise, even to themselves. The famous scientist Alexander Fleming said, “When I woke up just after daybreak on 28th September, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to change all the medical ways by discovering the world’s’ first antibiotic (抗生素). But I guess that was exactly what I did.”

Some people only became successful after their deaths. Not like Pablo Picasso who became famous and very rich during his lifetime, the artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting all through his life and that was to a friend. But he kept painting and he painted more than 2,000 artworks in the following ten years. Now his paintings are very popular and they sell for millions of pounds.

One thing all these people have in common is sticking to their goals no matter what.