Every country has its heroes. The heroes are the people the nation and especially the young people 1 . If you get a list of the heroes of a nation, it will tell you the potential(潜势，潜力) of that nation: For example, the youngsters in China nowadays have taken Yang Liwei 2 since the launch(发射) of Shenzhou V.
If today in America you ask the high school students to list their heroes, the 3 would probably fall into three types. The first type of heroes would be the rock stars — the people 4 with rock music. There’s no doubt that such people have talent but one often wonders if one should 5 rock stars as a model. The rock stars too often are mixed with drugs and their personal life is not all that 6 . The rock stars are rich and they wear the latest fashion styles. However, one should 7 more in a hero than such things 8 money and fine clothes.
A second type of heroes for the American youth are the sports stars. 9 , a hero of this kind is a person who has a talent in one area — sports. However, too often the personal life of the sports stars is 10 disordered. Too frequently drugs and drinking are part of 11 of the sports stars. |
