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The blind box phenomenon isn't limited to collectibles. Businesses across sectors can incorporate this trend to increase customer engagement, attract a wider audience, and enhance the shopping experience. Here are a few ideas for how different types of businesses can incorporate blind box concepts.

Create mystery product boxes.

Introduce a line of mystery boxes for your products. For example, a beauty brand could create blind boxes with a mix of skincare or makeup products. Each box could include items of varying values, creating an element of surprise for customers.

Create exclusive (独有的) blind box series that feature one-of-a-kind items or unique packaging, which can increase demand and bring in regular customers. Offering these boxes on a seasonal or limited-time basis also adds an element of urgency, motivating customers to act quickly.

Incorporate blind boxes in loyalty programs.

For businesses with loyalty programs, offering blind boxes as part of a rewards program can drive engagement. This would give them a unique stimulation to continue buying and interacting with your brand.

Adopting the blind box model can help businesses tap into the excitement and mystery that drives this trend, while also providing a fun and memorable experience for customers. By adding elements of exclusivity and variety, brands can boost sales and customer loyalty, turning each purchase into an engaging experience.

A. Consider rarity an artistic focus.

B. Launch limited-edition blind boxes.

C. This trend started in Japan and quickly spread worldwide.

D. And a fashion shop might offer mystery gift packs.

E. Regular customers could exchange points for mystery boxes.

F. There are countless social media groups discussing the blind boxes.

G. It has also become a business model for industries ranging from fashion to beauty.

The Coller Dolittle Challenge financed by Jeremy Coller, a vegan and animal lover, is unashamedly modelled on the Turing test (图灵测试). That 20th-century test promotes efforts to design a machine capable of imitating human conversation, and became a touchstone in the evolution of AI. It also became a focus for concerns about machines tricking, even taking over, humans. The ability to commune with other species is likely to raise similar, unsettling questions as research progresses. If we were able to decode animal chatter, should this knowledge change how we treat them, whether as pets, labour or food? The prize presents a moral challenge and it forces us to reconsider our relationships with other species.

Philosopher Jonathan Birch, also a judge of the Jeremy Coller Centre, stressed that the Challenge is looking beyond the interspecies communication we have with pets, or that a farmer has with a sheepdog. Those relationships involve signalling and behavioural responses, Birch explains, "but that's not telling us how animals communicate with each other... this prize is about understanding it so well that we can start to join the conversation."

While Coller hopes his charity will reshape our attitude to animals, the truth is that even groundbreaking research has largely failed to move the dialon their welfare. Recent work on cephalopod's (头足类动物) intelligence has not stopped plans to farm the creatures. We might one day be able to understand what animals are saying — but there is no guarantee we will listen.

But some worry that so much messaging leads to less communication. For instance, when hanging out with friends, we'd be texting secretively at the same time, pretending to maintain eye contact but mentally somewhere else.

New technologies often upset the way we relate to one another, of course. But such division caused by texting has a strong echo in the arguments we had over telephone a hundred years ago. The small device gave us a new way to contact one another and quickly promote new forms of socializing. Callers arranged regular "visiting" calls, dialing remote family to catch up on news.

Soon, though, social critics thought it would be so easy to talk that we'd never leave each other alone. Others worried that the telephone sped up life, demanding instant reactions. The use of the telephone gave little room for reflection. It produced a craziness in the ordinary concerns of life which didn't make for domestic happiness. "We shall soon be nothing but transparent piles of jelly (果冻) to each other," a London writer moaned in 1897.

However, nowadays the telephone call seems like a throwback to a gentler era. When Jenna Birch, a communication professor at the University of Iowa, started dating a man who insisted on calling her on the phone, she found it warm and delightful. So she doesn't think the shift to texting has degraded our interactions. According to her study, teenagers who text the most are also those who spend the most time face to face with friends. Communication, it seems, brings more communication, and — as she argues — just because talk happens in text doesn't mean it's not meaningful.

Michéle Martin of Carleton University, thinks we're living through a replay of the telephone, where the things that made it valuable — instant communications — are the same that made it annoying. "People believe they are liberated because they can bring the mobile phone everywhere," Martin says. "But at the same time, they are slaves to it."

Norton built his own career in a different field, becoming one of his generation's most respected actors. When Norton first became famous, he concluded that he wasn't interested in ordinary celebrity ambassador work. "I am not interested in being some weak sauce kind of spokesperson," he says. "It's not that I don't believe those things are important, but that held no nourishment for me."

What does nourish Norton is his work with a Kenya-based organization called the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust which helps the Maasai people to make a living from their land through innovative means. One project that Norton is particularly proud of channels profits from the sale of carbon offsets (碳补偿) to local Maasai communities who use that money to support health, education, and conservation initiatives.

One challenge that concerns Norton would be familiar to his father and grandfather: raising funds. This led Norton to a realization. "We can't have the conservation movement depend only on donor-funded charity," he says, "It not only can't scale; it's fundamentally unstable."

A new model is needed. Norton and his partners argue that tourist dollars being spent in fragile places ought to remain in-country — or better yet, in-community. Norton and his team have started a company called Conservation Equity that will invest in tourism in critical places and will reinvest its profits locally, instead of paying distant shareholders.

Norton is optimistic about the model's prospects, "I think what we are doing has no previous example to follow. The needs of people are not going to take a lower priority to the spiritual value of nature. If protecting and restoring nature can't produce a stronger and more reliable economy, the effort will fail."

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How often do we get(stick) in traffic jams? How often do we arrive at work or school,(stress) out, tired and angry? For many, the answer is every day. But personal(angry) and stress are nothing(compare) to the real costs socially.

Can a sixth extinction(avoid)? Experts say it is not yet too late if we take action now. We need to take steps to save endangered species, including setting up special areas plants and animals can be protected. We need to change how we work and travel by using cleaner,(natural) sources of energy. If we want to survive, we need to stop(destroy) the planet.

The third mass extinction was known as the "Great Dying", killed 90% to 96% of all species. And the fifth event, which(occur) 66 million years ago, caused the death of the dinosaurs. The reasons for extinctions are varied, including volcanic eruptions, asteroids(hit) the earth from space and global warming. Many scientists say we are entering the sixth mass extinction. This time, human activity will be(blame). Although it is not unusual for species to die naturally, the rate at which this is now happening is cause for concern.

To be at the top in sport, I have to face enormous fears and worries on a day-to-day (base). I am always tired and every workout has a mental intensity that seems too much for most (handle). I have little time to get together with my families. In order to find a swimming pool to train in, I (ruin) a family holiday in France. You may think my lifestyle is (healthy) and my preparations are overdone. However, if you want to be an Olympic champion and reach the winner's platform, you'd better be totally (commit) to your sport. Doing the extra little bit sets us from other competitors. And (get) to the top inspires everyone to strive for greatness.

But something4 inside me refused to give up and I kept trying. While Ms. Barton never smiled, I started noticing little nodes of5. Then came the shock — she asked me to join a ballet dance for our year-end show!

During practice, I tripped, I stumbled, but I kept going. On opening night, as the spotlight hit me during the finale, all my6 melted away. The audience's cheers washed over me like warm sunshine.

Another shock came on the last day of school. When Ms. Barton called my name for the "Ballerina" award, I nearly7 my books. That serious teacher was actually smiling at me. As I received the award, a bit teary-eyed, I smiled back at Ms. Barton and said, "Thank you for challenging me."

Holding the8, I realized something important — my biggest9 had become my proudest moment. In that instant, it hit me. When you10 in life, make it part of your dance.

1.表示理解；

2.给出建议。

注意：

1.写作词数应为80个左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Doris,

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Yours,

Li Hua