Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
______ did she open her lunch box than everyone gathered around her.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The most appropriate option to fill in the blank is No sooner.
- As soon as and just as both mean immediately after something happens. However, no sooner is more emphatic and suggests that something happened very quickly after another thing happened.
- Hardly means almost not at all. It does not make sense in the context of the sentence because it does not describe how quickly everyone gathered around her.