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.
Question 27: The basketball team knew they lost the match. They soon started to blame each other.
A. Not only did the basketball team know they lost the match but they blamed to each other as well.
B. As soon as they blamed each other, the basketball team knew they lost the match.
C. Hardly had the basketball team known they lost the match when they started to blame each other.
D. No sooner had the basketball team started to blame each other than they knew they lost the match.
Question 28: We cannot completely avoid stress in our lives. We need to find ways to cope with it.
A. As long as we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
B. Since we cannot completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
C. After we can completely avoid stress in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
D. Because stress can completely be avoided in our lives, we need to find ways to cope with it.
