Read the extract and answer the questions given below - To slow the boat down, we dropped the storm 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 life lines, donned oilskins and life jackets - and waited. (a) Why did they go for the life-raft drill? (½) (b) What does the word 'we' here refer to? (½) (c) Write the meaning of - 'Stern' (¼) (d) 'To drop' here means - (¼) (i) to slope downwards (ii) to make something fall (iii) to stop something

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