1、Goodbye then He cried to her.这里可不是他哭着喊再见，而是他大声对她说，再见啦！ Young Carl Fredricksen sat in the darkened movie theater, wearing his leather flight helmet.He straightened in his seat as a newsreel flickered onto the screen. The newsreels were Carls favorite part of going to the movies. They were full of inf
2、ormation about people, places, and exciting events going on in the world.Newsreel 新闻影片，一种在1910年至1960年间很风靡的一种短纪录片电影；as 这里表示时间，相当于when. Flicker，这个词是闪烁的意思。Carl 看到银屏上闪现的新闻影片，一下子坐直了（straightened）。Day 23Hello Ladies,It is the first day of our 21 days Reading Program （second time）, thank you all for trust
3、me, I will try my best to explain this book, and if you have any comments, please let me know.Contents:Mom makes me help Manny get ready for school in the morning. After I make Manny his breakfast, he carries his cereal bowl into the family room and sits on his plastic potty.And when its time for hi
4、m to go to day care, he gets up and dumps whatever he didnt eat right in the toilet.Mom is always getting on me about not finishing my breakfast. But if she had to scrape corn flakes out of the bottom of a plastic potty every morning, she wouldnt have much of an appetite either.1. get ready for some
5、thing: to be ready to do something.potty: a bowl used by small children as a toilet.day care:child day care, orchildcareis the care of a child during the day by a person other than the childslegal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the childs immediatefamily. Day care is typically an
6、ongoing service during specific periods, such as the parents time atwork.get up: get out of bedscrape: to rub （a surface） with heavy pressure.Corn flakes:Bottom: the lowest or deepest part.appetite: a desire for food or drink.Day 24 TuesdayI dont know if I mentioned this before, but I am SUPER at vi
7、deo games. Ill bet I could beat anyone in my grade head-to-head.Unfortunately, Dad does not exactly appreciate my skills. He always getting on me about going out and doing something “active”.So tonight after dinner when Dad started hassling me about outside, I tried to explain how with video games,
8、you can play sports like football and soccer, and you dont even get all hot and sweaty.But as usual, Dad didnt see my logic.Day 25Dad is a pretty smart guy in general but when it comes to common sense, sometimes I wonder about him.Im sure Dad would dismantle my game system if he could figure out how
9、 to do it. But luckily, the people who make these things make them parent-proof.Day 26Every time Dad kicks me out of the house to do somethings sporty, I just go up to Rowleys and play my video games there.Unfortunately, the only games I can play at Rowleys are car-racing games and stuff like that.B
10、ecause whenever I bring a game up to Rowleys house, his dad looks up on some parents Web site. And if my game has ANY kind of fighting or violence in it, he wont let us play.Im getting a little sick of playing Formula One Racing with Rowley, because hes not a serious gamer like me. All that you have
11、 to do to beat Rowley is name your car something ridiculous at the beginning of the game.Kick out: transitive及物动词 informal to force someone to leave a place or organization.kicksomeoneoutof something: Sonias beenkicked outof her house.Formula One : A Formula One race or Grand Prix is a sporting even
12、t which takes place over three days （usually Friday to Sunday）, with a series of practice and qualifying sessions prior to a race on Sunday. Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. -Ralph W.Sockman囫囵吞枣的人生不是成长，成长是对过往所经历的细细品味和领会。Day 27And then when you pass
13、 Rowleys car, he just falls to pieces.Anyway, after I got done mopping the floor with Rowley today, I headed home. I ran through the neighbors sprinkler a couple times to make it look like I was all sweaty, and that seemed to do the trick for Dad. Sprinkler: n.1.洒水车，洒水器，喷壶；洒水装置。2.（草坪、高尔夫球场的）地下灌浇系统。短
14、语和例子 sprinkler system 自动喷水消防系统。 a couple times: a few times 几次Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.-Francis de Sales没有什么比温柔更坚强，也没有什么比真正的坚强更温柔。What I wrote:（When I was 15 years old, my father told me to run outside every morning, I did the same thing. I played
15、tricks, and I thought my dad wont find out, actually, he knows everything.）Day 28But my trick kind of backfired, because as soon as Mom saw me, she made me go upstairs and take a shower.WednesdayI guess Dad must have been pretty happy with himself for making me go outside yesterday, because he did it again today.Its getting really annoying to have to go up to Rowleys every time I want to play a video game. Theres this weird kid named Fregley who lives halfwa
