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Twenty years ago only a very small number of people had the skills or equipment to make fake money. Today, computer, copier, and printer technology is so advanced that almost anyone can “make” money. With the new technology there is a new kind of casual faking machine. The number of bills made by casual fakers on their home or office computer is growing fast. In fast, this number has doubled every year since 1989! There is no way to _1_ faking completely. But the government has recently found a few ways to make casual faking very _2_.

One way is to put very, very small words, called microprints (微型印刷), in _3_places on the bill. The words are only 6/1000 inch. No one can read them without a magnifying glass, and they are too small to come out _4_ on a copier. If someone copies a bill that has microprints, the microprinted words on the bill will only be black lines.

Another way to stop people from making fake money on their home computers is to use special color-changing ink. Money printed with color-changing ink will look green from one _5_ and yellow from another. Home computers can’t use color-changing ink. Copies from a home computer only have normal ink and that can be _6_quite easily.

_7_, money is made on special paper with very small pieces of red and blue silk mixed in. And on each bill there is a special line that runs from the top to the bottoms of the bill. The line turns red if you put it under a special light. This line and the special paper with red and blue silk are not easy for home computers to _8_.

The government must try many different ways to stop faking. It needs to keep _9_ the way money is made because fakers can learn to copy the changes. Today copiers ca n’t copy microprinted words or color-changing. But in a few years, who knows?

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The lawyer began to read out Henry’s will. “Dear friends,” he began, “ I have set you a little competition. Each of you in turn must tell _1_ the joke he or she call think of, and the one who causes the _2_ laughter will receive my fortune after my death. My lawyer, will be the only _3_ of the best joke.”“So, ladies and gentlemen,” said the lawyer, _4_ the will down on the table, “It’s up to you now. Who will _5_first? May I suggest that you go in the alphabetical order of surname?”The first person stood up and _6_ a very funny joke about an Englishman who _7_ in love with his umbrella. When he _8_, he was in tears of laughter, for he always laughed at his own jokes. The rest of people _9_remained completely silent. You could tell from their red faces and their eyes that they found the joke funny, but _10_wanted to laugh and give him the chance to _11_ the competition. The second told a story about a three-legged pig. When she sat down, the others coughed, _12_ to spit, dropped pencils under the table---anything to _13_ their laughter from being notice. And so it _14_, joke after joke, the sort of joke that made your sides ache and nobody dared to laugh! _15_ the time the last joke had been told, every one of the twelve people attending the reading out of Henry’s will was sitting perfectly still. Silence, painful silence. Suddenly the lawyer sneezed. Then, he took out a large red spotted handkerchief and blew his nose. Bbhrrrrrppp. That was enough. Someone burst out laughing, unable to hold it any longer. That startedt eh others off. Immediately the hall was filled with laughter.

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