Question

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow : (91 to 99) He must have seen us coming from some distance. By the time he loomed up in front of my headlights, the arms in the snow-caked overcoat were flailing desperately like windmills. Pat gave a little gasp and I braked at once, though gently, or I might have followed his car into the ditch. But immediately I had second thoughts; there had been one or two nasty cases of hold-up in the papers recently. I wasn't going to take any chance with Pat, my sister, there. I changed down the gear and made to drive round him. Pat was horrified. 'Aren't you stopping, Bill?' I shook my head. 'Too risky'. It was then that I saw the car. It had skidded right across the road and was hanging nose down in the deep ditch. I braked again and brought the Mini-Moris gradually to a stop. I slid back my window as he looked in and then I saw that he was bleeding from a cut in his check 'Anybody else in the car?' 'No, on my own. If you could give me a lift'. I nodded and he got into the back and slammed the door. 'Sorry about this, folks. I was beginning to think I was stuck there for the night. Not that you would call it a bust road, is it ?' 'Not at twelve o'clock at night', Pat said turning round to smile at him. 'We have been to a dance in Boling ford. Bill didn't want to go, but I was keen. He isn't a bad brother, really'. '____ he loomed up in front of _____' The underlined phrase means the same as :

• A. looked up
• B. fell down
• C. appeared
• D. drove up

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

The underlined phrase means the same as 'appeared'. In general, ''loomed up'' suggest something or someone appearing in a way that's imposing' threatening, or unsettling.