Question

___students will take part in the sports meeting and _____them is over three hundred.

A．A number of; the number of	B．A number; the number
C．The number of; a number of	D．The number; a number

Answer 1

D

解析试题分析：句意：许多的学生参加了这次运动会，他们的总数超过了300. A number of后加可数名词复数，许多的……; the number of???，……的总数，作主语看做单数。根据句意，故选A。
考点：考查近义词辨析。