[音频]Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels, Belgium, on May 4, 1929. Although she was the daughter of a Dutch baroness (女男爵) and a wealthy English banker, Audrey had a difficult childhood. Her parents ________ when she was young and Audrey went to live with her mother in the Netherlands. Soon after, the German army ________ Holland. During the Nazi occupation, her family faced starvation and Audrey ____________ severe anemia (贫血), and respiratory problems.
[音频]Audrey was sixteen when the occupation ended. She and her mother returned to London. Her big break came when the French novelist Colette __________ her in a crowd and insisted that Hepburn be cast as Gigi in a Broadway adaptation of her novel. In spite of Hepburn’s ____________, audiences and critics alike were captivated (迷住) by her performance.