Greg Heffley is the main character in Jeff Kinney’s best-selling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of books. Greg is a middle school student with big dreams. In his diary, he writes stories about his struggles to fit in and draws pictures to go with them.
Greg Heffley is a thin but ambitious kid with an active imagination and big plans to be rich and famous — he just has to survive middle school first. To make matters worse, Greg’s lovable best friend, Rowley seems to sail through life and succeed at everything without even trying! As details of his extremely funny — and often disastrous — attempts to infill the pages of his journal, Greg learns to appreciate true friends and the satisfaction that comes from standing up for what is right.
The first live-action movie based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid came out in 2010. Now an animated film based on the original book is about to hit screens.
“The new Diary of a Wimpy Kid is going to feel a lot different from the live-action movie,” Kinney told TFK reporter Lucy Sandor. “Parts of that first movie were reimagined. But the animated version just came to life from the pages of the book,” he said.
Humor inspires Kinney to write. Whether it’s a movie script or a book, he likes to start with jokes. “When I think of a joke, it often comes with a picture in my mind,” he said.
“Then I write. And in the end, I do the drawings.”
Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be available on Disney+ beginning December 3.
1. What is Greg Heffley’s dream?| A．To be rich and famous. | B．To have a best-selling book. |
| C．To be a famous director. | D．To write a best-selling novel. |
| A．How to draw cartoons. | B．How to write a diary. |
| C．How to save a friend. | D．How to appreciate a true friend. |
| A．The animation is reimagined. | B．The animation is a sound movie. |
| C．The animation comes directly from the book. | D．The animation has more audience. |
| A．A book. | B．Humor. | C．A movie. | D．A character. |
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【推荐1】The domestic film market hard-hit from the pandemic for almost three years is handing in an impressive report card. Here are some top films at the box office in 2022.
The Battle at Lake ChangjinⅡ
Release date: Feb l
Box office: $607.20 million
Retelling a lesser-known yet extremely brutal mission that almost changed history during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea(1950—1953), the sequel acted by Wujing, Yiyangqianxi and soon recounts how Chinese People’s Volunteer Soldiers sacrificed to destroy the bridge near the Funchilin Pass to cut US force’s withdrawal to the 38th Parallel.
Moon Man
Release date: July 29
Box office: $463.28 million
Dugu Yue, a spacecraft maintenance man, is unintentionally left on the moon after the evacuation of the crew of Lunar Shield. Witnessing the catastrophic hit from the moon, Dugu believes the Earth is completely destroyed and he’s the last human in the universe. However, what he doesn’t know is that the surviving people are all watching his every move from the Earth.
Too Cool To Kill
Release date: Feb l
Box office: $392.66 million
Wei Cheng gong, a nameless extra actor, believes it’s finally his turn to shine when he was “given the opportunity to play the role” of the male protagonist (主角), Carl the killer. Little does he know that he has become a killer in real life accidentally. What will he encounter in the course of his “performance”?
Lighting Up The Stars
Release date: June 24
Box office: $255.30 million
Funeral home worker Mo Sanmei meets orphan Wu Xiaowen at a funeral shortly after his release from prison. The appearance of Xiaowen unexpectedly changes Mo Sanmei’s attitude toward his career and life.
1. Which film seems to be a science fiction?| A．Too Cool to Kill. | B．Lighting Up The Stars. |
| C．The Balt leat Lake Chang jinⅡ. | D．Moon Man. |
| A．Too Cool To Kill &.The Battle at Lake ChangjinⅡ. |
| B．Moon Man &.Lighting Up The Stars. |
| C．Lighting Up The Stars &.Too Cool To Kill. |
| D．The Battle at Lake ChangjinⅡ&.MoonMan. |
| A．They maybe all related to a certain mission. |
| B．Their themes are all about romantic love. |
| C．They are all box office successes. |
| D．All of them are tragedies. |
【推荐2】Do you like movies? If your answer is yes, there are a few movies you can choose from.
Rebecca
Lily James stars as the innocent young woman who is attracted by a handsome English widower Mr. de Winter in Monte Carlo. But when she marries him and then moves into his Cornwall mansion, she is troubled by the reputation of the previous Mrs. de Winter. It released on Netflix from 21 October.
Over the Moon
Over the Moon is a musical inspired by the legend of moon goddess Chang’e. When a 12-year-old girl hears the legend from her parents, she builds a rocket ship so that she and her pet rabbit can visit the moon goddess. The director, Glen Keane, has talked about the film’s authentic depiction(描述) of Chinese family life. It released on Netflix from 23 October.
Possessor
Andrea Riseborough stars as an assassin(刺客) who can telepathically(心灵感应地) control other people’s bodies and get them to do the killing for her. Her latest job is to kill an IT tycoon and his daughter by controlling the daughter’s fiance（未婚夫）. It released on 2 October in the US and 9 October in Canada.
Honest Thief
Liam Neeson plays Tom, a retired bank robber who promises to return his ill-gotten gains in exchange for a reduced prison sentence so that he can settle down with the woman he loves. But the two FBI agents assigned to get back the money decide to steal it instead and frame(诬陷) Tom for murder. It released on 14 October in France, 15 October in Portugal and 16 October in the US.
1. How does the little girl in Over the Moon go to the moon?| A．By an airplane. | B．By a school bus. |
| C．By an express train. | D．By a rocket ship. |
| A．Rebecca | B．Over the Moon |
| C．Possessor | D．Honest Thief |
| A．The woman in Rebecca isn’t very happy after getting married. |
| B．Over the Moon is inspired by an American fairy tale. |
| C．The assassin in Possessor kills people by controlling their bodies. |
| D．Tom in Honest Thief frames the FBI agents to get money. |
【推荐3】The Best Free Movies on Amazon Prime Video
Here are some of the best free movies on Amazon Prime Video, sorted out for convenience.
Honey Bay
Written by Shia LaBeouf based on his own experiences of growing up, Honey Boy is a surprisingly heartfelt and influential movie. Describing the life of a former child actor who is addicted to alcohol, this semi-autobiographical work offers profound insight into the pain and pressure of a man forced to evolve in the public eye.
The Avengers
Start your hero’s journey all over again by rewatching the first Avengers movie. Of course, Disney has the most Marvel movies of any streaming service, so if you want to do a marathon, that’s the place to start. But if you didn’t subscribe to anything there and just want to relive the Baule of Neu York, then this is a great opportunity.
Eighth Grade
Director Bo Burnham and star Elsie Fisher timelessly reflected on growing up in this work. An occasionally painful yet consistently spectacular story told a 13-year-old girl’s final week of middle school, a chance to t the record straight and reimagine her future high school sell.
The Farewell
The star Awkwafina delivers an amazing performance in writer-director Lulu Wang’s attractive story of a granddaughter saying goodbye to her grandmother. Played by Zhao Shu-zhen, a mixture of comedy and heartbreak. The Farewell touches on timeless themes of pity and grief in a way that is both clever and moving.
1. Who wrote a film story according to his own life?| A．Shia LaBeouf. | B．Bo Burmham. | C．Elsie Fisher. | D．Awkwafina. |
| A．Honey Boy. | B．The Farewell. | C．Eighah Grade. | D．The Arengers. |
| A．A teenager’s school life. |
| B．A girl breaking a world record. |
| C．An old lady remembering her high school. |
| D．A granddaughter saying goodbye to her grandmother. |
【推荐1】Dick lived in England. One day in January he said to his wife, “I’m going to fly to New York next week because I’ve got some work there.” “Where are you going to stay there?” his wife asked. “I don’t know yet.” Dick answered. “Please send me your address from there in a telegram (电报),” his wife said. “All right,” Dick answered.
He flew to New York on January 31st and found a nice hotel in the center of the city. He put his things in his room and then he sent his wife a telegram. He put the address of his hotel in it.
In the evening he didn’t have any work, so he went to a cinema. He came out at nine o'clock and said, “Now I’m going back to my hotel and have a nice dinner.”
He found a taxi (出租车) and the driver said, “Where do you want to go?” But Dick didn’t remember the name and address of his hotel.
“Which hotel are my things in?” he said, “And what am I going to do tonight?” But the driver of the taxi did not know. So Dick got out and went into a post office. There he sent his wife another telegram, and in it he wrote, “Please send me my address at this post office.”
1. Dick flew to New York because ___.| A．he went there for a holiday | B．he had work there |
| C．he went there for sightseeing (观光) | D．his home was there |
| A．In the center of the city. | B．In a hotel. |
| C．In a restaurant. | D．At his friend’s house. |
| A．The manager (经理) of his hotel. | B．The police office. |
| C．The taxi driver. | D．His wife. |
| A．Dick stayed at a nice hotel in the center of the city. |
| B．Dick didn’t work on the first night of his arrival. |
| C．Dick forgot to send his wife a telegram. |
| D．Dick wanted to go back to his hotel in a taxi. |
【推荐2】Letting me move into my university dormitory wasn’t an easy decision for my parents. However, they knew if I wanted a good education, I’d have to live away from home. I’d always dream of living alone the life of no rules and regulations and being independent. So I was delighted about this new stage in my life.
Unexpectedly, during the first few months of living alone, I would find myself crying every day. I would call my mum every day. Coming from a big family, I was used to noises surrounding me. Therefore, the scary silence at night was the worst. I couldn’t even sleep without keeping the lights on.
As time went by, I started enjoying the freedom that came with living alone. I could do things in my own time: eat whenever I want, wake up whenever I want. The space of loneliness was also then filled up by friends who became like family, so I started missing my family less.
When it was time to say goodbye and go back home after my graduation I was bittersweet. I’d enjoyed my time alone, learning things which wouldn’t have been possible if I had never moved away from home. But I’d also missed my family too much.
I’d learned a lot from this experience. Living alone made me value family time even more. I realized every second with them was important though I might not get the freedom while living alone.
I guess it’s different for everybody, but for me, there is no warmth in a house unless it’s filled with loving members and people you love.
1. How did the author feel before moving into the university dormitory?| A．Sad. | B．Happy. |
| C．Nervous. | D．Cold. |
| A．He had mixed feelings. |
| B．He didn’t enjoy his time alone. |
| C．He has been used to the life in school. |
| D．He found living with his family was better than in the school. |
| A．The author felt cold living in school. |
| B．The author’s dormitory was the warmest place. |
| C．The author felt warm living with his beloved ones. |
| D．Everyone felt warm when living with his beloved ones. |
| A．Family is the most important place in people’s life. |
| B．As time goes by, people can get used to what happened. |
| C．People can find freedom only when they leave their family. |
| D．People need to grow up on their own, but family plays an important role. |
It goes like this: You can’t take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We’d take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the tram, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn’t like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom’s friend was waiting to give us a ride home—our first car ride of the day.
The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.
Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light-rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox—and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.
On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestnut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where’s the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?
I’m writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn’t try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.
1. Which was forbidden by Mom on Transportation Days?
| A．Having a car ride. |
| B．Taking the train twice. |
| C．Buying more than one toy. |
| D．Touring the historic district. |
| A．Building confidence in herself. |
| B．Reducing her use of private cars. |
| C．Developing her sense of direction. |
| D．Giving her knowledge about vehicles. |
| A．displayed |
| B．justified |
| C．ignored |
| D．ruined |
| A．Airplane. |
| B．Subway. |
| C．Tram. |
| D．Car. |
【推荐1】
Four novels to read this winter | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | This classic novel explores racism in the American South through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch and her father, Atticus Finch, a just and sympathetic lawyer. To Kill a Mockingbird earned the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1962, giving the story and its characters further life and influence over the American social sphere. For more, click here |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | This novel tells the story of the Buendía family over seven generations in the town of Macondo, combining magic realism with the portrayal of Latin American culture and history. The novel won many awards for Márquez, leading the way to his eventual honor of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his entire body of work, of which One Hundred Years of Solitude is often lauded as his most triumphant. For more, click here |
| Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | This groundbreaking novel delves into the expression of identity for African American males, with the unnamed narrator facing adversity and discrimination as he moves from the South to New York City. The novel is renowned for its surreal and experimental style of writing that explores the symbolism surrounding African American identity and culture. Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. For more, click here |
| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | This novel describes one day in the life of a British socialite named Clarissa Dalloway, using a stream-of-consciousness style to provide a deeply personal look into the characters’ minds, focusing on their regrets, struggles with mental illness, and the impact of social pressures. The novel’s unique style, subject, and time setting make it one of the most respected and regarded works of all time. For more, click here |
| A．Invisible Man. | B．Mrs. Dalloway. |
| C．To Kill a Mockingbird. | D．One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
| A．The author won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1982. |
| B．The author tells his true family story in this novel. |
| C．The author uses a writing style called magic realism. |
| D．The author explores the symbolism on African culture. |
| A．In a magazine. | B．In a science report. |
| C．On a movie poster. | D．On the Internet. |
Biography
When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it. The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.
J.D. Salinger A Life by Kenneth Slawenski（Random House,$27）
Mystery（疑案小说）
“You’re a smart boy. Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.
A thought suddenly occurred to Annika, “Did you …You recognized the man in the car, didn’t you?”
The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers, “Maybe,” he said quietly.
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund（Atria Books, $25. 99）
Short Stories
She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t. Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.
You Are Free by Danzy Senna （Riverhead Books,$15）
Humor
Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive of most cities?
Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（Ecco,$14. 99）
1. If the readers want to know about the life of Salinger , they should buy the book published by
| A．Random House | B．Atria Books |
| C．Riverhead Books | D．Ecco |
| A．young children | B．Disney World workers |
| C．middle school teachers | D．parents with young children |
| A．Happy And Other Bad Thoughts | B．You Are Free |
| C．J. D. Salinger :A Life | D．Red Wolf |
| A．the murderer got away with the crime |
| B．Benny died of an accident |
| C．the boy helped arrest the murderer |
| D．Annika carried out the crime |
【推荐3】Gold Fame Citrus
by Claire Vaye Watkins ($5.99)
With the flight of its characters through a landscape destroyed by climate crisis, this novel does not indicate much hopefulness for the future. Within it is a series of situations and consequences made more severe in a future California short of water. Across the desert. we follow Watkins’ characters through a place so transformed that it needs its own field guide of animals newly adapted for strange survival.
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson ($18.1)
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate will affect us all. Its setting is not a deserted world, but a future that is almost upon us. This extraordinary novel from the visionary science fiction writer will change the way you think about the climate crisis.
Breathing Fire
by Jaim Lowe ($27)
The front lines of the fight against climate change are peopled with those society has forgotten. Up to 30 percent of the firefighters battling wildfires in California each year are prisoners performing backbreaking labor while earning a 40th of what a civilian makes. This book follows six female prisoner firefighters and their worried families, looking into the human cost of environmental crisis.
Something Under the Sun
by Alexandra Kleeman ($28)
In Alexandra Kleeman’s new novel, a novelist new to Los Angeles teams up with a former child actor to investigate a conspiracy (阴谋). But this is L.A., where wildfires burn all year long and the rich store water while the poor suffer from the consequence of climate crisis. Human weakness is pushing the city toward a disaster.
1. Which book will change how we look at the climate crisis?| A．Gold Fame Citrus | B．The Ministry for the Future | C．Breathing Fire | D．Something Under the Sun |
| A．drama. | B．Biography. | C．fiction | D．poetry |
| A．They show concern over climate. | B．They are at a discount. |
| C．They are intended for parents. | D．They are set in California. |
