《2025年南方新课堂金牌学案九年级英语全一册人教版》

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There was a businessman who was deep in debt (债务) and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench, head in his hands.
Suddenly, an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the businessman's story, the old man wrote out a check, 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 quickly as he had come.
The businessman saw in his hand a check for 500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world!
"I can pay off my debts in a second!" he realized. But instead, the businessman decided to put the check in his safe. 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 check. At the agreed - upon time, the old man appeared. Behind the old man was a nurse. The nurse spoke to the businessman and said that the old man was mentally ill and was always telling people he was John D. Rockefeller.
The businessman was shocked to hear this. All year long he'd been buying and selling, believing that he had half a million 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 power to achieve anything he went after.
1. What did the businessman probably feel when he received the check?___He probably felt thankful and excited. /Thankful and excited.
2. Why did the businessman put the check away?___Because he wanted to save his business by himself.
3. How did the businessman pay his debt?___By working hard himself.
4. What happened at the agreed - upon time the next year?___The old man appeared and the nurse told the businessman that the old man was mentally ill and was always telling people he was John D. Rockefeller.
5. What does the story teach us?___Self-confidence can give us the power to achieve anything.

答案： 1. He probably felt thankful and excited. /Thankful and excited.
2. Because he wanted to save his business by himself.
3. By working hard himself.
4. The old man appeared and the nurse told the businessman that the old man was mentally ill and was always telling people he was John D. Rockefeller.
5. Self-confidence can give us the power to achieve anything.