1. (2020·吴忠模拟) 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，在每小题句子空白处填入适当词语，使其意思与短文内容一致（每空词数不限）。

    A businessman was deep in debt(负债) and could see no way out. He felt sad and sat on the park bench and wondered what to do.

    Suddenly an old man appeared. After listening to the businessman, the old man wrote out a check(支票) and said to the businessman, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year later from today and you can return the money at that time." Then the old man walked away.

    The businessman saw the check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller who had the greatest amount of money in the world.

"I can pay off all my debts at once!" he thought with a smile. But instead, he decided to put the check in his safe(保险箱).

    Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

    Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. The old man appeared. But just as the businessman was about to hand back the check, a nurse came up and led the man away. The nurse sad the old man was mentally(精神上地）ill and was always telling people he was John D. Rockefeller.

    The businessman just stood there, greatly surprised. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money that had turned his life around. It was his confidence that had given him the strength.

1. （1） The businessman had no money to pay off his and was in great trouble.
3. （2） The old man asked the businessman to give the money one year later.
5. （3） The businessman met the old man in theone year later.
7. （4） In the end, he realized the old man was not the man in the world, but an old man who was mentally ill.
9. （5） Maybe the businessman succeed if he knows the truth at the very beginning.