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Danish police have been left scratching their heads as they hunt for the vandals who decapitated the Little Mermaid. Few clue

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问题     Danish police have been left scratching their heads as they
hunt for the vandals who decapitated the Little Mermaid.
   Few clues have emerged of the second beheading in 35 years 【1】______
of the famous statue on Copenhagen’s waterfront, which has
shocked Danish public and worried tourism officials.          【2】______
   Frogmen scouring the harbor near the statue failed to find
the Little Mermald’s bronze head and two youth on roller skates【3】______
seen near the landmark early on Tuesday morning have not
responded police requests to help in the investigation.       【4】______
   "I am afraid that the latest attack on the Little Mermaid can
backfire on our tourism," said Bernhard Joergensen, director of
the Wonderful Copenhagen tourism organization.
   "It is important for a tourist city to have a symbol like the
Eiffel Tower in Paris and the London% Big Ben.                【5】______
   Based on the fairytale of Hans Christian  Andersen about the【6】______
Sea King’s daughter that must wait on her rock for 300 years  【7】______
before entering the world of humans and marrying her prince,
the Little Mermaid attracts almost one million tourists a year.
   The statue was found severed at the neck by a saw or       【8】______
grinding machine after an anonymous call to a local television
cameraman before dawn on Tuesday.
   Police are working on a theory that the beheading was the
work of the same person who sawed a 19th century galleon      【9】______
figurehead at a naval base in Copenhagen just before Christmas.
   The severed figurehead was found in the ladies’ toilets of a
department store on Tuesday, give rise to police suspicions a 【10】______
mentally disturbed woman may be behind the two decapitations.
【M8】
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答案sever—severed
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