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  3. Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born American actress and humanitarian. Born in

Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born American actress and humanitarian. Born in

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问题     Audrey Hepburn was a Belgian-born American actress and humanitarian. Born in Brussels, Belgium in May 4th, 1929, Hepburn was the daughter of a 【S1】______ British banker and a Dutch mother. She attended private schools in England and the Netherlands. But after the divorce of her parents she was living with her mother in the Netherlands when the German invasion and 【S2】______ of World War Ⅱ occurred.
    After the war, she and her mother moved to London, England where she studied ballet, worked as a model, and, in 1951 began acting in films. After being chosen to play the lead 【S3】______ in the Broadway play, Gigi, and after a successful run in New York, Hepburn was offered a starring role in the Hollywood motion picture, Roman Holiday. For her 【S4】______, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and over her illustrious career she would be 【S5】______ best actress four more times.
    One of Hollywood’s most popular 【S6】______ attractions, Audrey Hepburn co-starred with major actors such as Fred Astaire, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, Peter O’Toole, Gregory Peck, and Sean Connery.
    After fifteen highly 【S7】______ years in film, after 1967 Hepburn only acted 【S8】______, her last role filmed in 1988 just before she was appointed as a special ambassador to the United Nations Children’s Fund. For the remainder of her life, Audrey Hepburn 【S9】______ herself to helping impoverished children in the world’s poorest nations.
    In 1992, President George Bush Sr. presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her work with UNICEF. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, posthumously 【S10】______ her The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her contribution to humanity.

              Word Bank:
A. character             I. successful
B. nominated             J. performance
C. well-to-do            K. delighted
D. occasional            L. contribution
E. box-office            M. movie
F. occupation            N. failure
G. awarded               O. sacrificed
H. dedicated
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答案 C
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