(2019·青岛质检)Once a businessman got so deep in a debt crisis that he was at the end of his rope. He sat on the park bench, __1__ if anything could save his company. __2__ an old man appeared before him. __3__ listening to the problem, he wrote out a check and said，“Take this __4__. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can __5__ me back at that time.” Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had __6__.
The businessman saw in his __7__ a check for D|S500,000, signed by John D．Rockefeller, then one of the __8__ men in the world! The money was more than __9__ to save his business. __10__， he decided to put the check in his safe. Just __11__ he had half a million dollars might give him the __12__ to work out a way to save his business, so he got up from the bench and started his new life.
Feeling __13__ and working hard, he was making money once again. One year later, he returned to the __14__ with the check, and the old man appeared. Just as the businessman was about to say __15__， a nurse came running up. “I'm so __16__ I caught him！” she cried.“He's always __17__ from the rest home and telling people he's John D．Rockefeller.” Then she led the old man away by the arm.
Suddenly, the businessman __18__ that it wasn't that money, real or imagined that had turned his __19__ around. It was his newfound selfconfidence that gave him the power to __20__. As is said, in most cases, selfconfidence is more important than money.
