Nadya Vessey, of Auckland, New Zealand, was born with an illness. So at the age of 16,
of her legs below the knees were cut off. One day when a little boy was watching _
take off her prosthetic(假體的)legs, he asked her
she didn't have any legs. Thinking quickly she asked him whether he had read The Little Mermaid（美人魚）．He said“
_ ．”So Nadya told him that she was a mermaid. The Little boy was
and said,"Wow! That's so cool!” And then he ran off to tell his Dad.
The
of becoming a mermaid became clearer and clearer in Nadya's mind. After
it over, she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington to ask if they could
her. She never believed they actually would, so she was excited when she knew they_
_. Weta workshop's manager, Richard Taylor, was very pleased to make it true, and wanted Nadya to be
_ .
It took Weta Workshop two years to make a special
for Nadya. "A prosthetic is a prosthetic, and your body has to be comfortable
it and you have to make it part of
". After practicing in the
, Nadya went to the open sea to try on her mermaid suit. It was
amazing and great to watch Nadya swim, and to see her dream come true.
Nadya Vessey herself has written the story of a real mermaid.
| 小題1: | | A．either | B．both | C．neither | D．none |
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| 小題4: | | A．No | B．Yes | C．Sorry | D．Goodbye |
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| 小題5: | | A．sad | B．afraid | C．surprised | D．fortunate |
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| 小題6: | | A．news | B．idea | C．story | D．history |
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| 小題7: | | A．going | B．taking | C．turning | D．thinking |
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| 小題8: | | A．save | B．pick | C．treat | D．help |
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| 小題9: | | A．agreed | B．checked | C．refused | D．received |
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| 小題10: | | A．ugly | B．beautiful | C．friendly | D．relaxed |
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| 小題11: | | A．hat | B．jacket | C．sweater | D．suit |
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| 小題13: | | A．myself | B．ourselves | C．yourself | D．yourselves |
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| 小題14: | | A．dining hall | B．waiting room | C．living room | D．swimming pool |
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| 小題15: | | A．too | B．really | C．well | D．enough |
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