2016年全国“最美孝心少年”广东中山市席嘉琪年幼时，她的家庭突遇变故，生活从零开始，与母亲相依为命。而对逆境，她坚强地搭起生活的担子，7岁时捡过瓶子、卖过文具，9岁开始学街舞、打比赛、赢奖金，存钱交学费，先后获得了全省甚至全国街舞大赛大大小小三十多个奖项。在妈妈眼中 ，嘉琪撑起了这个家的“半边天”。

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Steveis interviewing the famous biographer (传记作家)Garen Thomas.

Steve：Thomas, ____ a famous writer, would you please tell ussomething about yourself and your new books?

Garen：Of course.

Steve：Where were you born?

Garen：I was born in Chicago, but I spent most of my childhood inNew York.

Steve：____ was your childhood like?

Garen：I had pretty strict parents. They wished me to be successfulin studies. So I think my childhood was ____(bore)and I was always complainingabout it.

Steve：Do you get along well ____ your parents now?

Garen：Oh sure, I have reached middle age now. So far I ____(understand) their love for me.

Steve：Where did you go to university?

Garen：I graduated ____ Yale University with a degree in EnglishLiterature.

Steve：How did you start writing?

Garen：I like writing from young, ____ it is not easy for me toenter this occupation. You know, I once worked in companies. I started writingfor magazines and eventually ____(ask) to write books, so I was pretty lucky.

Steve：____ did you begin to write the book about the presidentObama?

Garen：From the beginning of 2008, it ____(take) me 6 months toprepare for it, interviewing and finding information about him. Obama told memany stories about his life and family.

Steve：Sounds interesting.