Question

【題目】The number of people invited to the party________ fifty, but a number of them________ absent for different reasons.

A.were; wasB.was; was

C.was; wereD.were; were

Answer 1

【答案】C

【解析】

句意：被邀請(qǐng)參加聚會(huì)的人數(shù)是五十人，但由于種種原因，許多人都缺席了。

考查主謂一致。根據(jù)A number of大量、很多；后接可數(shù)名詞復(fù)數(shù)或代詞，謂語動(dòng)詞用復(fù)數(shù)形式；The number of……的數(shù)字/數(shù)目；當(dāng)它作主語時(shí)，謂語動(dòng)詞用單數(shù)。結(jié)合“people”，故選C。