Passage 29
学霸导读 不要小看任何一个人，看似平平无奇的人或许也能有一番惊人的作为哦。
The exams were just over and the summer vacation just started. Now Keven was free like a bird. Suddenly the doorbell rang. It was his cousin, Max. “Hi!” screamed Max, “I have come to stay here for the holidays.”
The next days were a 1 for Kevin. After breakfast Kevin decided to do a painting. He took out all his art supplies and started painting beautiful scenery. When he nearly f inished it, Max entered the room with a Cola bottle. He slipped on some water and spread Cola all over the painting. It was c 2 destroyed. The next day was even worse. Max put Kevin’s best pair of shoes into the washing machine along with the clothes.
One day Kevin was going through the newspaper when some interesting news caught his a 3 . He read it aloud， “The world famous philatelist （ 集邮家 ） Dick Brown’s stamps were stolen last week in his town. Several other stamp robberies also have taken place， and police suspect that all the robberies are l 4 .”
Kevin had a nice stamp collection and it was with his friend Allan. He decided to get his stamp album back as he felt it would be much s 5 with himself. But Kevin couldn’t go, so he decided to ask Max to get his album. Kevin gave Max the address of Allan’s and Max started. Max soon came back with the album and when Kevin checked it, he found that it was not his album. It contained valuable stamps. Actually Max had gone to another house by mistake and he had knocked on the door but no one a 6 . He found the door unlocked, so he went in. He found an album which looked like Kevin’s and brought it back.
Kevin doubted that it might be the stolen album probably belonging to Dick Brown. Kevin made c 7 with the police. A week later, Kevin and Max got reward for f inding Dick Brown’s album.
“I will never be angry at Max,” Kevin thought.
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高频词汇
supply /sə'plaɪ/ n. 补给（品）；供应量
spread /spred/ v. 展开，散开
go through 经历；翻阅
suspect /sə'spekt/ v. 怀疑
unlocked /ˌʌn'lɒkt/ adj. 未锁的
reward /rɪ'wɔːd/ n. 奖励，回报，报酬