1 2016 年168 中学自主招生考试学科素养考核 英 语 卷 第一部分 阅读（共两节，满分40 分） 第一节 阅读理解（共15 小题；每小题2 分，满分30 分） 阅读下面短文，从每小题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中选出最佳答案，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。 A One Sunday, Nicholas, a teenager, went skiing at Sugarlaof Mountain in Maine. When he was planning to go home, a terrible snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone or other supplies. He was getting colder by the minute. Nicholas tried to calm down. He thought about all the survival shows he had watched on TV. It was time to put the tips he had learned to use. He decided to stop skiing. There was a better chance of someone finding him if he stayed where he was. The first thing he did was to find shelter from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, which could quickly kill him. Using his skis, Nicholas built a snow cave (洞穴). He gathered a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle. Then he piled branches on top of himself to stay as warm as he could. By that evening, Nicholas was really hungry. He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t lose too much water. After that, Nicholas huddled (蜷缩) in his cave and slept. The next day, Nicholas went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find anyone. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave. On Tuesday, Nicholas went out to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him. After two days stuck in the snow, Nicholas was saved. Nicholas might not have survived his snowstorm if he hadn’t done so. He had often wat...
