Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:At dawn on January 2, the waves were gigantic. We were sailing with only a small storm jib and were still making eight knots. As the ship rose to the top of each wave we could see endless enormous seas rolling towards us, and the screaming of the wind and spray was painful to the ears. To slow the boat down, we dropped the stõrm jib and lashed a heavy mooring rope In a loop across the stern. Then we double-lashed everything, went through our life-raft drill, attached lifelines, donned oilskins and life jackets – and waited.The first indication of impending disaster came at about 6 p.m. with an ominous silence. The wind dropped, and the sky immediately grew dark. Then came a growing roar, and an enormous cloud towered aft of the ship. With horror, I realised that it was not a cloud, but a wave like no other I had ever seen. It appeared perfectly vertical and almost twice the height of the other waves, with a frightful breaking crest.1. ‘We were sailing with only a small jib’. In this sentence, the word shows ………….A. distance.B. time.C. a sail.D. a type of boat.2. …………… and spray was painful to the ears’ means ……………A. the sound rising from the spray was too loud.B. the water of the spray entered the ears and caused great pain.C. the spray hit very hard causing pain.D. None of these three3. The first indication of impending disaster was ……………A. severe blowing of wind.B. terrible lightning.C. premonitory silence.D. rising of mountain – like waves.4. The wave, that the writer had wrongly taken as a cloud, was …………A. twice the height of the other waves.B. vertically rose over the writer’s ship.C. broke on the writer’s ship.D. Both ’A’ and ‘B’