Question

I had hardly got to the office________my wife phoned me to go back home at once.
(2012·大綱全國Ⅱ，11)

A．when	B．than
C．until	D．a(chǎn)fter

Answer 1

A
解析　句意為：我剛到辦公室，我妻子就打電話讓我立刻回家。“hardly...when...”是固定句型，意為“剛……就……”。類似的結(jié)構(gòu)還有scarcely...when...，no sooner...than...。以上結(jié)構(gòu)中當(dāng)no sooner，hardly，scarcely放在句首時句子要用倒裝語序。