题型：完形填空 题类： 难易度：普通
湖南省青竹湖湘一外国语学校2023-2024学年九年级下学期第一次月考英语试题
There was a businessman who was deep in debt(债务) and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench(长凳), head in his hands.
Suddenly, an old man appeared before him and said, "I can see that something is 1 you. If you need someone to talk to, I'm happy to lend an 2 ". After listening to the businessman's story, the old man wrote out a check(支票), and put it in his hand, saying, "Take it and pay me back here exactly one year from today." Then he turned and disappeared as 3 as he had come.
The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, one of the 4 men in the world!
"I can pay off my debts in a second!" he realized. 5 , the businessman decided to put the check in his safe(保险箱). Just knowing it was there might give him the power to save his business, he thought.
He went back and worked hard to make his business successful. Within several months, he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the 6 . At the same time, the old man appeared. Behind the old man was a nurse. She spoke to the businessman and said that the poor old man was mentally(精神上) 7 , but sometimes he ran out of the hospital, telling people he was John D. Rockefeller, the United States oil king.
The businessman was 8 to hear this. All year long he'd been buying and selling, believing that he had half a 9 dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the 10 to achieve anything he went after.
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