Zhuang Zhou, who lived more than 2,000 years ago, was considered a great philosopher of Taoism (道家) in ancient China. We also call him Zhuang Zi. There are many interesting stories about him and animals. And his stories always bring us inspiration (灵感) about life. Here are two of them.

One day, Zhuang Zi had an interesting dream. He dreamed that he became a beautiful butterfly. He flew around and did anything he wanted. When he woke up, he asked himself, “Who am I? Am I Zhuang Zhou or the butterfly?” Finally. he said. “Maybe I am a butterfly. In my dream. I became a man and my name was Zhuang Zhou.”

Another day, Zhuang Zhou and his friend took a walk along the river. Zhuang Zi saw some fish in the river. He said, “Look at the fish! How happy they are!” His friend said to him, “You are not a fish, so how do you know they are happy?” Zhuang Zi smiled and said. “But you are not me. how do you know that I don’t know the feeling of the fish?”

Time is important for everyone. It organizes our everyday moments. However, before I received a watch from my father, time never had any importance in my life.

I received this gift on a Sunday. I had to go to the airport at 9:00 a. m. to meet Uncle Jim and take him home. However, I was late because I played with my friends. Later on that day, around 11:00 a. m. , I remembered my uncle and went to the airport to meet him, but I was too late. He had left the airport.

I got home at 2:00 p. m. Looking at my father's face, I felt sorry. My father asked me to sit next to him and handed me this watch. Then he said,“Bob,did you have fun with your friends today?”"Yes, but I'm sorry about not meeting Uncle Jim. "I replied. He then said,"What you did was not very nice and you should be sorry for your actions. I think you should learn something from it, and this watch will be a reminder for you in your future life. ”

The watch is very important to me, not because of its price, but because of the lesson that I learned from it.

[1]There was a tree in my garden. One day, two birds came to the tree and built a house for their three newborn babies.

[2] One day, I ①________ the sound of the little birds. I ran to the garden and found two babies eating food on the ground. I thought they dropped off their house, so I decided to help them get back to their house. At that time, the father bird and the mother bird came back. They had some food for the third baby. They put the food on the ground, far away ②________ the   third baby. To get the food, the baby had to fly to it.

[3] The third baby was hungry, but she was afraid to get out of the house. 令我吃惊的是，鸟爸爸和鸟妈妈仅仅是站在那里并且什么也没做。

[4] After about ten minutes, the third baby bird didn’t have any other choice. She slowly went to the border（边缘） of the house and began to fly. She flew off from the house. Finally, the third baby bird landed safely on the ground and found the food.

[5] These birds taught me a lesson: if you want your food, you will have to learn to fly.