Vocabulary 3

One day last year, some New York City sanitation workers were very surprised when they emptied a garbage can. Along with the banana peels and empty Coke cans, they found $18 million in new ________________.

• equipment

• ink

• bills

Who would throw out all that money? The workers felt that something was not right, so they called the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the part of government that makes paper money. The Bureau employees said that the money looked real but that, in fact, it wasn’t. It was ___________and not legal.

• fake

• legal

• illegal

The garbage must have belonged to ________________ , people who make money that is not real.

• scanners

• counterfeiters

• brand name

They use both old and new _______________ , or ways, to make money.

• scanners

• technologies

• logo

For example, some make the money by using printing presses, big machines similar to those for making books or newspapers; others use ________________ and other computer _________________.

• bills/ equipment

• equipment/ scanners

• scanners/ equipment

These counterfeiters probably printed a lot of money and weren’t happy with how it looked. Maybe the drawing wasn’t good enough. Or maybe the ______________ was not exactly the right color.

• ink

• logo

• label

Copying money is ______________ . Counterfeiters who get caught can go to prison for a long time. The people at the Bureau work very hard to _____________ people from making fake money.

• fake/ arrest

• nervous/ fake

• illegal/ prevent

The Bureau never caught these counterfeiters. Nobody knows if they were able to make another $18 million that looked _______________real.

• quality

• label

• completely