提升英语成绩的重点在于阅读能力的提升，以下是银川一中2015/2016学年高二上学期期中考试英语试卷，请大家及时练习。

第一节  (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文 ，从每题所给的四个选项 (A 、B 、C  和 D )中 ，选出最佳选项

A.

Read the advertisements, and then choose the best answers.

Driver Wanted

1. Clean driving license   2 Must  be of smart appearance.    3 Aged over 25.

Apply to：Capes Taxis, 17 Palace Road, Boston

Air Hostesses for International Flight Wanted

1. Applicants must be between 20 and 33 years old.

2. Height 1.6m to 1.75m.    3  Education to GCSE standard.

4 Two languages. Must be able to swim.

Apply to: Recruitment office, Southern Airlines, Heathrow Airport West HR37KK

Teachers Needed

For private language school. Teaching experience unnecessary.

Apply to: The Director of Studies, Instant Language Ltd, 279 Canal Street

21. What prevents Jack, an experienced taxi driver, working for Capes Taxis?

A. Fond of beer and wine.

B. Not having college education.

C. Unable to speak a foreign language.

D. Punished for speeding and wrong parking

22. Ben, aged 22, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college and can speak two foreign languages. Which job might be given to him?

A. Teaching at Instant Language Ltd.

B. Working for Southern Airlines.

C. Driving for Capes Taxis.

D. None of the three jobs mentioned above.

23. If Mary wants to work for Southern Airlines, she must _____.

A. be over 25 years old

B. speak another language besides her own

C. look smart and beautiful

D. have some similar working experience

B

Not a day goes by when we don’t use the World

Wide Web. Today it has become almost as important

to every family as food and water! This year, the

World Wide Web has turned 25 years old. What

many people don’t know is that the web was at first

created to improve communication between

thousands of scientists in Switzerland.

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee was a 34-year-old

British physicist working as a software engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland. Since CERN was a huge organization with thousands of scientists, communication between them was becoming increasingly difficult.

Berners-Lee wanted to develop a system to solve the problem. His paper suggested an information system, where a page on one computer could have a link to another page on another computer (connected through the Internet), allowing scientists to read lots of information quickly. However, Berners-Lee’s boss said that it sounded exciting but impossible.

Even though there were many difficulties and few supporters, Berners-Lee went on to develop the World Wide Web. He came up with ideas such as Hyper-text Transfer Protocol (超文本传输协议) to allow computers to talk to each other, Hyper -text Markup Language (HTML) to create the pages, a server to serve the pages, and a browser (浏览器) to see them.

In December 1990, the World Wide Web was demonstrated (展示) and in 1991, the WWW project was made public, so that other programmers could develop their own browsers. Berners-Lee believed that it could be used for more than scientific purposes. He wanted the Internet to be easy for anyone to use — a free open software. His wishes soon came true.

Although the World Wide Web has today turned into a completely different thing from what it meant at first, it has become necessary and important to our lives, powering our mobile technologies and the way we get information.

24. The World Wide Web was created to _____.

A. help people get information easily and quickly

B. support the development of mobile technologies

C improve communication between scientists at CERN.

D. make it easier for British scientists to communicate

25. As for Berners-Lee’s paper, his boss _____.

A. felt puzzled about it

B. showed no interest in it

C. was certain about it

D. had no confidence in it

26. According to the text, Berners-Lee _____.

A. doesn’t give up easily when in trouble

B. is a 55-year-old Swiss physicist

C. has worked at CERN for 25 years

D. knows little about the Internet

27. What would be the best title for the text?

A. The popularity of the web.

B. Interview with Tim Berners-Lee.

C. Tips on improving the website.

D. World Wide Web turns 25!