You might have noticed a lot of celebrities watering themselves with buckets of ice water recently – what’s that all about?
That is called the “Ice Bucket Challenge”. It was created by the ALS Association, who are working to fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). According to the game rules of “Ice Bucket Challenge”, participants（参与者） have to pour a bucket of ice water over the head, and people who are invited to the challenge and do not do the pouring within 24 hours should donate 100 US dollars to ALS Association to help patients.
The campaign went throughout social media and has made a growing number of celebrities worldwide, including Bill Gates, Stephen King, Christiano Ronaldo, and Lady Gaga and so on.
On August 20, 2014, the former US President George W. Bush joined a growing list of celebrities across the world to take “Ice Bucket Challenge” and nominated(提名) his predecessor（继任者） Bill Clinton to do it next. “Now it’s my privilege(荣幸) to challenge my friend Bill Clinton to the ALS Challenge,” he said. “Yesterday was Bill’s birthday and my gift to him is a bucket of cold water.”
Hong Kong’s popular artists such as Andy Lau, Miriam Yeung and Eason Chan also took the “Ice Bucket Challenge”. They recorded the whole process of pouring and shared videos on the social media platforms like Facebook.
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