Read the following passages and select the most appropriate options as answers to the questions given below them:Somehow I managed to stretch canvas and secure waterproof hatch covers across the gaping holes. Some water continued to stream below, but most of it was now being deflected over the side.More problems arose when our hand pumps started to block up with the debris floating around the cabins and the electric pump short-circuited. The water level rose threateningly. Back on deck I found that our two spare hand pumps had been wrenched overboard – along with the forestay sail, the jib, the dinghies and the main anchor.Then I remembered we had another electric pump under the chartroom floor. I connected it to an out-pipe, and was thankful to find that it worked.1. The writer managed to prevent water coming from gaping holes by……………A. covering them with his own palms.B. asking Mary to put something into them.C. stretching canvas a cross the gaping holes.D. None of these three2. More problems occurred when ……………A. the water coming in could not be prevented at all costs.B. the hand-pumps started blocking up with the debris.C. the electric pump short-circuited.D. Both ‘B’ and ‘C’3. What brought the writer a little relief ?A. Two spare hand-pumpsB. The dinghiesC. The main anchorD. Another electric pump4. What made the blocking of hand-pumps ?A. The debris floating around the cabins.B. The water getting deflected over the side.C. The short-circuited electric pump.D. The threateningly rising water level.