Who says only adults can influence the world? Teenagers can too. A good ______ is 20-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes.
Mendes is on Time magazine's list of the most influential teens of 2017. He is ______ as a role model (榜样) who always shares ______ ideas on social media (媒体).
Indeed, unlike others, Mendes uses social media in a good way. In 2012, he was still a high school student. One day, he put a clip (片段) of ______ singing Justin Bieber's song As Long as You Love Me on Vine, a video-sharing app. In only six seconds, he ______ to show his sweet voice and cute smile. By the next morning, he had 10,000 likes.
From there, he became a singer. His first album Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. At 20 years old, he's the youngest artist on the Forbes Famous People 100 list thanks ______ to a strong showing on the road. He played over twenty festivals across Canada and 27 European shows.
Mendes ______tries to be himself. "There are lots of people who say 'act this way' and 'talk this way' on social media, but ______ worked for me was just being myself," he told Seventeen, a US teenager magazine. He keeps putting his music videos, good or bad, online.
He does so in life as well. During his first concert in Toronto, he asked for the house lights to be ______ and he sang without a microphone. A guitar accompanied (陪伴) him. "So I can see their faces, and see there are real people, that it's not just a ______," he told The Telegraph. "I'm not the best singer in the world. I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like," he added.
1.A.news B.choice C.example
2.A.seen B.prepared C.caught
3.A.bad B.hopeful C.useless
4.A.himself B.myself C.themselves
5.A.regretted B.managed C.used
6.A.widely B.mostly C.seriously
7.A.never B.seldom C.always
8.A.who B.which C.what
9.A.turned on B.turned off C.turned down
10.A.room B.crowd C.field
—Do you know ______? I must find him.
—Sorry. I don't know. But he was here just now.
A.where Tom is B.where has Tom gone C.where Tom was D.where can I find Tom
No matter what problems we meet, we should try to solve them. Even though we fail, teachers and parents ______ us.
A.are strict with B.are worried about C.are proud of D.are hard on
This story is ______ simple English. My little sister can read it.
A.for B.by C.with D.in
I don't think he can speak English ______ a local speaker in Britain.
A.as good as B.as well as C.as bad as D.as badly as
The oil on the earth will ______ one day. We should make good use of it.
A.find out B.work out C.run out D.give out
