It must be something in the air as every company that possibly can is having a baby contest. Of course, babies are wonderful , and many parents would be the first to agree. Companies really bring in much money.
Walgreens Baby Contest
If you play the new Baby Milestones Challenge Contest by BabyCenter & Walgreens, you could be entered to win $1,000 in Walgreens & Beauty.com Gift Cards and Certificates. You can play the instant win to see if you get a $25 Walgreen’s gift card, but you have to plug in your email address and receive all their sales and other information for the contest.
Kids and Babies
Kids and Babies are accepting entries for May 2012 Free Photo Contest. Baby Photo Gallery with theme albums and age group albums is moved to the new website Cute Baby Gallery. Check KidsandBibs.com for their Baby Photo Contest blog’s latest update. Grand prize is $25,000. The catch: Winners are decided by the visitors coming to the site and voting for their favorite babies, so you have to advertise their site for them.
Parents.com
Perents.com has a website only for their members, but if you are into “baby” photos, it is well worth surfing. You could receive offers on free samples, money- saving coupons (優(yōu)惠券), and chances to win the latest contests.
Avon
Avon is another company that has a baby photo contest this spring. Avon is advertising their newest collection. It is Avon’s only collection for the photos of babies. Babies’ age: newborn to 2 years. Just go to TinyTillia.com and upload your recent baby’s photos. First place Baby will be featured in a Tiny Tillia Storybook and win a $5,000 U.S. Savings Bond. The Cuties will win $300 in Tiny Tillia products.
The tip is to run a search engine for all the latest contests going on and start entering them today. You could be lucky and win enough to put “Baby” through college! Have fun!
小題1:In the author’s opinion, holding a baby contest __________.
A．is not reasonable at all
B．is funny and interesting
C．a(chǎn)ttracts parents’ attention
D．can cost a company much money
小題2:If your baby enters for the 2012 Free Photo Contest, you will __________.
A．have to help to advertise their site
B．take your baby to the gallery in May
C．a(chǎn)dvise the visitors to come to the site
D．see the Baby Photo Gallery’s update about Babies’ photos of the contest
小題3:What can we learn from this passage？
A．Free Photo Contest will be held in March, 2012.
B．Avon is a website that will hold a baby photo contest.
C．Parents.com only accepts the photos of its members’ babies.
D．You can upload your one-year-old baby’s photos to TinyTillia.com.
小題4:In the last paragraph, the author advises you to __________.
A．try your best to bring up your baby well
B．enter for all the contests as soon as possible
C．let your kid go to college when he grows up
D．get more information about these contests

小題1:C
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:B

試題分析：本文介紹了在春天會(huì)有許多網(wǎng)站和公司會(huì)舉行寶寶攝影大賽，詳細(xì)說明參加比賽的條件、要求和獎(jiǎng)金等內(nèi)容。
小題1:推理題：根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容可知獲獎(jiǎng)了還會(huì)有獎(jiǎng)金，這會(huì)吸引家長(zhǎng)的注意。故選C。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第三段最后一句“so you have to advertise their site for them”所以你不得不為他們宣傳他們的網(wǎng)站。故選A。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)第三段中“Grand prize is $25,000. ”獎(jiǎng)金是2萬(wàn)5千美元，可知A錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)第五段第一句“Avon is another company that has a baby photo contest this spring”雅芳是這個(gè)春天另外一家舉行嬰兒照片比賽的公司，因此B錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)第四段第一句“Perents.com has a website only for their members”Perents.com網(wǎng)站只對(duì)自己成員開放，而不是成員的孩子，因此C錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)第五段中“Babies’ age: newborn to 2 years. Just go to TinyTillia.com and upload your recent baby’s photos”嬰兒年齡是新生兒到2歲，就去TinyTillia.com上傳你家孩子最近的照片，由此可知把一周歲大的孩子的照片傳到TinyTillia.com是可以的。故選D。
小題4:推理題：根據(jù)最后一段第一句“The tip is to run a search engine for all the latest contests going on and start entering them today. ”小竅門就是運(yùn)用搜索引擎找到所有最近將要進(jìn)行的比賽，今天就進(jìn)入，可知是在告訴你進(jìn)入盡可能多的比賽的方法。故選B。
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