Today we call on YOU to vote（投票）for your national heroes. We will 1 your votes and then count them up. In two weeks, we will tell you the 2. Now it's time to start thinking! Decide 3your national hero is, then make sure you VOTE. First, write the name of your hero on a piece of 4, with your name, your class and the reason why you chose that person. Put your votes in the box outside the school secretary's office.
So, just to get you started, our reporters asked some of the students in the school who their heroes were. They got lots of 5answers! There were lots of 6heroes, such as Yao Ming, Lin Dan. Some students chose famous singers or movie stars instead. Not many students chose a statesman（政客）as their hero. One student chose Wangari Maathai. She was the first African woman to get the Nobel 7Prize. She won the prize for helping poor people,8 women, one of her projects was to 9women to collect seeds from the forests and grow trees. She made her country 10and gave people jobs at the same time.
