单选题 ______to speak when the audience interrupted him.

【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] “hardly/scarcely...when...”和"no sooner..than...”均译为“一……就……”,在该句型中主句往往用过去完成时,从句用一般过去时;另外,当hardly/scarcely和no sooner放在句首时,主句要求部分倒装。例如:No sooner had I lived there,many neighbor came to visit me.(我刚在那儿住下,就有很多邻居来拜访我。)