STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS

A mouse and a lionOne day a mouse went out to find something to eat.He ran carelessly through some tall grass.He ran into a big lion.The lion caught him,held him tightly(紧紧地)and would not let him go."Please let me go,Mr Lion,"said the mouse."One day I will help you." The lion laughed and thought,how a little mouse could help a big lion!Then he said,"Very well,I will let you go.But you must walk more carefully." "Thank you,"the mouse said."You are very kind." The next week the mouse was again looking for something to eat.He saw the lion had fallen into a net of strong ropes.He could not move.The mouse cut one of the ropes with his teeth and then the other.Soon the     

A high-dexterity low-degree-of-freedom hybrid manipulator structure for robotic lion dance

Lion dance is a very popular and lively Chinese traditional art form. A robotic project in Singapore has been dedicated to the design and demonstration for similar traditional art forms using modern mechatronics technology. This paper deals with a novel six-degree-of-freedom （6-DOF） hybrid manipulator with high stiffness, high loading capability and high dexterity, mimicking the lion dancer＇s upper body motions along with the lion head movements. The design of the hybrid manipulator consists of a 2-DOF torso structure in serial configuration and a 4-DOF dual arm structure in parallel configuration. The combined 6-DOF hybrid manipulator can support the weight and dynamics of the lion head during the lion dance performance. Forward kinematics of the manipulator has been formulated and visualized for design purposes. Inverse kinematics of the hybrid manipulator were analytically derived for real-time motion control. Based on the design and modeling, a complete hybrid manipulator has been fabricated, implemented into the robotic lion, and successfully demonstrated for real robotic lion dance performance.     

An unusual auction

<正>Once a very rich man and his son collected valuable paintings by famous artists like Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet.Later, the son left to join the army. After a few weeks, the old man received a letter saying his son had died while taking another soldier to the hospital. The old man became very lonely and sad.     

一位母亲的诉求

After his father's death,the son left his mother at an old age home.The son used to visit her sometimes. One day,he received a phone call from the old age home.On the other side of the call was his mother.In a very serious 1)tone she said,"Please come to visit." The son went and saw that his mother was very serious.     

STORY：THE LION AND THE MOUSE

A lion is walking in the forest. He is big and strong. He is looking for his meal because he＇s very hungry.     

The Sky, Big or Small？

一、故事内容 There is a frog in a well. The well is very nice and deep. The frog likes his home very much. He stays in the well every day.[第一段]     

Humour Page

Passsge 1:It was one of those days in the Wild West. A rugged cowboy with a horrible scar on his face and a shiny gun at his belt rode very slowly into a dusty town as if he was a dead man. He left his horse outside the bar and stepped inside. The bar was full of people. They all gave the stranger a look in a brief moment of silence before they went back to their own drinking and laughing. The stranger ordered a glass of cold beer, gulped it down and walked out slowly-only to find his horse missing.     

雾都孤儿(10)(英文)

After breakfast they played a very strange game. The cheerful old man put a watch in his jacket pocket, with a guard-chain round his neck, and a notebook and a handkerchief in his trouser pocket. Then he went up and down the room holding a walking stick, just like the old gentlemen who walked in the streets. Sometimes he stopped at the fireplace, and sometimes at the door, pretending to stare with great interest into shop windows. He would then constantly look round, as if afraid of thieves, t…     

阅读理解两则(英文)

(A) More than seven hundred years ago,the Prince of Wales had a very big and brave dog called Gelert. One day the Prince wanted to go hunting with his men.He told his dog to stay at home and look after his baby son.The baby was in a wooden cradle(摇篮),which was like a small bed. When the Prince came back from hunting,Gelert ran out to meet his     

马达加斯加

The Story故事情节The animation focuses on four “stars”of the Central Park Zoo in New York City:a lion(Alex),a ze- bra(Marty),a giraffe(Melman) and a pregnant hippo (Gloria).Not content to live well enough alone,Marty makes his escape to explore the world     

Three Fables

The Fox and the Lion When the fox first saw the lion,he was terribly frightened.He ran away,and hid himself in the woods. The second time,however,he came near the lion.He stopped at a safe distance,and watched him pass by.     

FUNNY STORIES

A Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人) .Both of them loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught the servant who was just doing that.     

The Dog and the Fox

One day,a dog saw the skin(皮)of a lion in the garden;she began to tear it in pieces with her teeth.A fox,seeing her,said,“If this lion were alive(活着),you would soon find out that his claws(爪子)were stronger than your teeth.”寓意:It is easy to kick a man that is down.(人“弱”被人欺)The Dog and the Fox!河南@张勇刚…     

A Happy Frog

Summer Comes.The frog and his friends are very happy.Look, the flog is playing the instrument（乐器）and dancing happily.There are some things hiding in the picture.Can you find them？Have a try!     

STORES

There was ice on the road,and the doctor's car hit a tree and turned over three times.To his supprise,he was not hurt.He went out of the car and walked to the nearest house.He wanted to telephone the garage for help.The door was opened by one of his patients."Oh,Doctor,"she said,"I have just telephoned you.You must have a very fast car.You have got here so quickly.There has been a very bad accident outside.I saw it through the window.I'm sure the driver will need your help."     

老鼠和猫

Many years ago a very large rat lived in the king's palace.It was bigger than many cats and ate all the cats that tried to catch it.The king asked his people to find the best cat in the country.When they found the cat, they gave it to the king.The king then put the cat into a room with .the rat.As soon as it saw the rat, the cat ran and jumped up onto the table. The rat quickly followed the cat.This went on for a long time.The king and his friends said that the cat was not a good cat at all.But soon, the rat began to get tired and slow down.The cat then ran to the rat, picked it up with its teeth and killed it.     

ABSTRACTS

Ideas as Historical Events： On J. G. A. Pocock＇s Historiography
Abstract：J. G. A. Pocock is a famous member of the ＂Cambridge School＂, but the concerned review and research about him is still very rare in China. Taking one of his important works Virtue, Commerce and History as an example of his scholarship, the paper offers a general examination of his methodology and historical study of politieal ideas. The paper is divided into five sections.     

Amory’s Growth——A Case Study of Oedipus Complex

According to Freud,the formation and the dissolution of Oedipus complex are the natural processes of one’s psychosexual development.The growth of Amory Blaine chronicled in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise can be a case in point.His formation of the complex is promoted by his mother’s exclusive love and the indifference of his father in his growth,while his dissolution of it is accompanied by his identification with the father figure Monsignor Darcy and his efforts to search for a suitable object of love with several women.All those are very important experiences for Amory’s psychological maturity.     

There aren’t any crocodiles in the pond

Liu Hua's father contracted a pond(承包了一个池塘). The pond was very big. There were many flowers around it. There were some trees behind the flowers. It was a very beautiful place to travel. There were many different fishes in the pond. Liu Hua's father fed them every day and they could swim freely in the water. The place was very quiet. The fishes came out at times. One day, some young men from the city found the place. And they began to have swimming in the pond. Liu Hua's father adviced them. But they didn't listen to him. He had to write two words on a big sign(牌子): No Swimming. The next Sunday some other young men came and had swimming in the pond, too. He could not stop them swimming in the pond. He was very angry. People swimming in the pond were not good for the fishes to grow. He worried about his fishes. One Sunday morning Liu Hua told his father he could stop the people swimming in the pond. He told his father not to go to the pond and he could stay there by himself. When Liu Hua was playing, three young men came to the pond. "What a nice place it is!"one of them shouted. Then he saw Liu Hua and he came over to him.