- 试题详情及答案解析
- The number of people who _______ invited to the meeting _____ fifty, but a number of them _____ absent for different reasons.
| A．were; was, was | B．was; was, were |
| C．were, was; were | D．were; were, was |
- 答案：C
- 试题分析：考查主谓一致。定语从句“who _______ invited to the meeting”修饰先行词people，people在此是复数含义，第一空填were，排除B；the number of...“......的数量”，作主语时，谓语用单数，根据第二空排除D； a number of许多......，谓语用复数，排除A，故选C。
考点：考查主谓一致