Celebrity：Billie Eilish
【明報專訊】．Billie Eilish
．Nationality: American
．Age: 18
Record-breaking awardee
Recently, Billie Eilish has swept most top awards at The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony. She won five awards in total. Besides, she is the youngest artist to win the Album of the Year prize, and the first artist to sweep the top four awards since Christopher Cross in 1981. Her world tour will kick off on 9 March, with concerts in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, before the last stop in Jakarta on 7 September.
Ups and downs
Billie Eilish was 13 when her song Ocean Eyes went viral. But then she experienced ups and downs. She struggled with depression in 2018 but fortunately, she managed to get rid of the disease. She confessed that listening to music was healing but making music was not.
■Gear up
According to the passage above, answer the following questions.
(1)Billie wrote Ocean Eyes when she was 13. ( True / False / Not given )
(2)Billie will visit Hong Kong on 7 September. ( True / False )
(Answers on next text)
■English highway﹕get rid of
To remove something that you do not want.
e.g. We can usually get rid of hiccups by drinking or eating.
I want to get rid of this arrogant man.
■Glossary
experience (v) 遭遇
struggle (v) 抗爭
healing (adj) 治癒的
arrogant (adj) 傲慢的
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