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 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 all 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 day and 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. "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(厩)"I wouldn't leave here 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.
The underlined phrase make out in the first paragraph means ______.
A.expect
B.see clearly
C.hear clearly
D.understand
Many players who had been highly thought of have ______ from the tennis scene.
A.disposed
B.disappeared
C.discouraged
D.discarded
Tom&39;s education gave him an advantage ___boys who had not been to a college.
A.over
B.up
C.to
D.above
The young actor who had been thought highly of () to be a great disappointment.
A.turned up
B.turned out
C.turned down
D.turned in
Peter, who had been driving all day, suggested______ at the next town.
A.to stop
B.stopping
C.stop
D.having stopped
Peter,who had been driving all day,suggested__________ at the next town·
A.to stop
B.stopping
C.stop
D.having stopped
A.little
B.much
C.some
D.any
A.challenged
B.approved
C.distributed
D.attacked
Jack,s university education gave him__________ over boys who had not been to college.
A.a benefit
B.a profit
C.a view
D.an advantage
A.feature
B.advantage
C.privilege
D.disadvantage