(2) During her youth, Billie's mother moved to New York, leaving her daughter with relatives.
Billie tried to stand on her own two feet by doing odd jobs for money. Later, she moved to
Harlem with her mother. There, Billie tried to find more work. Around 1930, she decided to
change her name from Eleanora to Billie after the film star Billie Dove. She wanted to find a
job as a dancer, but when she found no openings, she auditioned to be a singer. After getting
her first singing job, Billie sang occasionally in clubs around Harlem. One evening a talent
scout named John Hammond attended a performance and heard Billie sing: he instantly
knew he had found a star
In paragraph 2, the idiom stand on her own two feet means
A)
to walk all by herself
B)
to take care of herself
to trust only in herself
D)
to live alone in a house