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I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪僻的) farmer. I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything. Even then I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I hadn’t the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go.

It had been snowing heavily that I didn’t know the way. I had been driving for at least an hour when I finally found his place. He was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Milly had died. “She meant more to me than anyone… even my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal (丑闻) . I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn. “I wouldn’t leave her out in the cold!” he said.

Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone but a doctor touch her !” he said, and burst into tears again.

1.The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means____.

A. expect B. understand C. see clearly D. hear clearly

2. Before he arrived at the farmer’s house, the writer expected to see Milly lying ____.

A. on the ground of a barn B. on the floor of a room

C. in bed in a room D. in bed in a barn

3. What do we know about Milly from the story?

A. She had met with an accident B. She had caused a scandal.

C. She was seriously ill. D. She was hidden somewhere.

4. The farmer wished that the writer might ____.

A. look into the matter B. bring Milly back to life

C. free him from a scandal D. keep the whole thing a secret

5. The person who told the story is probably a ____.

A. armer B. policeman C. country doctor D. newspaper reporter