I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was an eccentric(怪癖的) 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 that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident. I hadn’t the slightest(轻微的) idea who she was but I obviously had to go.
It had been snowing so 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.
The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means____.

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

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.

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

The person who told the story is probably a ____.

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