Question

________ people came to the meeting. ________ the people ______ about 50.

A. A number of, The number of, were

B. The number of, A number of, was

C. The number of, The number of, were

D. A number of, the number of, was

Answer 1

D

【解析】

试题分析：句意：许多人来参加这个会议。人数大约有五十人。分析：a number of 表示：大量的 同义于短语a lot of , 后面接名词复数；the number of 表示：……的数量，后面接名词复数，谓语用单数形式。明确答案为第四项。故选 D

考点：考查同义短语的辨析。