专题09 短文阅读填表（江苏专用）-【好题汇编】备战2023-2024学年八年级英语上学期期中真题分类汇编（全国通用版）

专题09 短文阅读填表 In the film Forrest Gump, there’s a famous saying: “Life is like a box of chocolate. You never know what you’re going to get.” It’s the same with blind boxes. The history of blind boxes can be back to lucky bags sold in Japan from the late 1860s. It becomes big business in China these days. The market for blind boxes could grow to 25 billion(十亿) yuan in 2025 from about 3 billion yuan in 2019. During the Double 11 shopping day, Pop Mart, a popular blind box company in China, sold 55,000 Labubu dolls in just 9 seconds. Why do people like these blind boxes? First, they have beautiful and cute looks inside the boxes. Second, they’re like miniature(微型的) cartoon characters. It’s possible to put them almost anywhere in your home. But another, perhaps more important reason is that the “surprise factor(因素)” makes them fun to buy. Sometimes, it’s a toy that you want. But sometimes, it’s not the one you want. Each of these small, closed boxes has one of many toys in it. The buyer doesn’t know what they can get until they open the box. “The most interesting thing about blind boxes is the gap(差距) between what you expect and what you get,” said Wen Xi, a blind box lover from Beijing. Some people surely get much fun from the boxes, but others worry that children might spend too much money on these toys. If you really want something special from a blind box, you might not get it in the first box. So you buy another box, hoping that you’ll get the toy you want this time. Then you buy another, and another. Pretty soon, you’ve spent all your money. I think we have to be careful about it. Part of growing up is learning self-control(自控), after all. The blind boxes The introduction ●Their 1 : The idea is from lucky bags in Japan a hundred years ago. ●Their meaning: When you buy one, you never know what you’re going to find inside. The reasons for their 2 ●The toys in them are really lovely; ●The toys are 3 small ________ you can put them almost anywher