NO SOONER HAD HE SAT DOWN TO LUNCH ... THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DO...

15. No sooner had he sat down to lunch ... there was a knock at the door.

A. as

B. that

C. when

D. than

In most lines of the text, there is one unnecessary word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit

in with the sense of the test. Underline this word and write it in the gap or put a tick (

) if a line is correct. 0 and

00 are examples (1.5pt)

Managers spend most of their time communicating-reading, and writing

0...… and……...

talking or listening - yet the evidence is that they do not always do

00 …..…. …...

this as successfully. One reason that has been suggested for this is that, in the