A teenager’s（青少年的）dream of cleaning up the world’s oceans may soon come true.

Seven years ago, when Mike was a teenager, he was swimming in the ocean. He saw more rubbish in the water than fish. So for a school project, he made a plan to clean up the ocean.

In 2013, Mike formed a group called The Ocean Cleanup. It collected money to put Mike’s water clean-up plan into action. Two years later, Mike’s plan began.

In the ocean, there is a lot of floating rubbish. Mike’s group will clean it up by using a floating plastic tube（漂浮塑料管）. The tube will go around the rubbish and trap（收集）, waves and ocean currents will push the rubbish to the tube. A ship will pick up the rubbish and take it back to the coast to sort（分类）and recycle it.

There are 1.8 trillion pieces of rubbish in the area. Most of it is plastic, like bottles, bags and packaging. Plastic rubbish is very bad for birds and fish. They eat the rubbish and may become sick. The Ocean Cleanup says it will be able to clean up half of the rubbish in the area within five years. If this first project works well, The Ocean Cleanup hopes to launch as many as 60 more.

“Make-A-Wish” is one of the world's most well-known charities(慈善机构) . It makes wishes come true for children who have serious illnesses. It gives them hope and joy and helps them forget about their health problems and have fun.

It all started in 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. Christopher was a 7-year-old boy who was very sick. He always dreamed of becoming a police officer. Tommy Austin and Ron Cox, two police officers, made his wish come true. They gave Christopher a tour of the city in a police helicopter(直升飞机) and made a real police uniform(制服) for him.

There are four kinds of wishes children usually have:

I wish to go. Children usually want to travel or go to a concert, a game or a park.

I wish to meet. Children sometimes want to meet their favourite actors, singers or players.

I wish to be. Some children wish to become actors, singers or police officers.

I wish to have. They often want to have a computer, a game, a bike or many other things.

Let’s hope more wishes will come true in the future. People who work in the charity always try for the best. Almost 25 ,000 volunteers(志愿者) help, work or give money. Will you be one of them?

A neighbor called 911 at 11: 09 a.m. after seeing smoke coming from a house in the 165 block of 54th Street Southeast.

The man who lives in the home was able to get his older child and the family dog out of the house on fire. Just then Monroe police officers arrived. The father said his younger child was still on the upper level of the house but he didn’t know where.

Officers did a quick search of the house but couldn’t find the girl. One of them closed the door to the master bedroom, where the fire started, controlling it and slowing its spread. Firefighters arrived and after searching the closet and narrow beds in another bedroom, one firefighter noticed the closed toy box at the foot of the bed.

“She wasn’t making sounds,” later the firefighter said of the girl, whose exact age he didn’t know. “I opened it up and saw her. She was lying in the toy box just balled up.”

Firefighters got the girl outside, where she was examined by doctors and found to be fine. The fire was quickly put out. The police officer who managed to shut the master bedroom door was highly praised. And the girl’s father was so thankful to firefighters.