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     There once lived an old man. He liked to hear lies (谎言) very much. "If any man tells the most
(1)w______ lie in the world, I will marry my daughter to him." The old man said.
     Many men came to tell him all (2)k______ of lies. But the old man would try to say the lie might
be (3)t______ in some way and he would not marry his daughter to him.
     One day a young man came to the old man. He took out an old piece of (4)p______ from his handbag
and said, "Your grandfather had borrowed one million dollars from my grandfather before he died. He
(5)w______ this for my grandfather and told us to take (6)b______ the money from you."
     The old man could see the (7)w______ on the paper, "I have borrowed one million dollars from you.
I'll ask my children or my grandchildren to pay you some day after my (8)d______."
     Now the old man didn't know (9)w______ to say. He thought, "If I say it's a lie, I will marry my
daughter to him, but if I say it isn't a lie, I must pay him the money."
     In the end he said, "It's a lie, a well-made lie." So the young man was (10)a______ to marry the old
man's daughter.

Answer 1

1. wonderful 2. kinds 3. true 4. paper 5. wrote
6. back 7. words 8. death 9. what 10. allowed