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Danish police have been left scratching theirheads as they hunt for the van

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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           【M1】______
beheading in 35 years of the famous statue on
Copenhagen’s waterfront, which has shocked        【M2】______
Danish public and worried tourism officials.
   Frogmen scouring the harbor near the statue
failed to find the Little Mermaid’s bronze head
and two youth on roller skates seen  near the      【M3】______
landmark early on Tuesday morning have not
responded police requests to help in the          【M4】______
investigation.
   "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      【M5】______
London’s Big Ben."
   Based on the fairytale of Hans Christian       【M6】______
Andersen about the Sea King’s daughter that       【M7】______
must wait on her rock for 300 years before
entering the world of humans and marrying her
prince, the Little Mermaid attracts almost one
million tourists a year.
   The statue was found sever at the neck by a          【M8】______
saw or 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 figurehead at a      【M9】______
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 mentally disturbed      【M10】______
woman may be behind the two decapitations. [br] 【M8】
选项
答案 sever —severed
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