The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other. A. Hardly had the basketball team known they lost the match when they started to blame each other. B.

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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.

The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.

Hardly had the basketball team known they lost the match when they started to blame each other.

Not only did the basketball tram lose the match but the blamed each other as well

No sooner had the basketball team started to blame each other than they knew they lost the match.

As soon as they blamed each other, the basketball team knew they lost the match.

Giải thích

Kiến thức: câu gián tiếp

Giải thích:

- No sooner + had + S + PP/V3 + than + clause (QKĐ)

= Hardly/Barely/Scarcely + had + S + PP/V3 + when + clause (QKĐ)

- As soon as: ngay khi

- Not only … but … as well: không những … mà còn …

Câu A, D sai về nghĩa. Câu B sai về cấu trúc.

Tạm dịch: Đội bóng rổ biết rằng họ đã thua. Họ sớm bắt đầu đổ lỗi cho nhau.

= Ngay khi đội bóng rổ biết rằng họ đã thua trận đấu thì họ bắt đầu đổ lỗi cho nhau.

Đáp án: A