题目

题型：不详难度：来源：

The number of people invited ______ fifty, but a number of them ____ absent for different reasons.

A．were； was

B．was； was

C．was；were

D．were； were

答案

C

解析

名词前有the number of 修饰，谓语用单数，名词前有a number of 修饰，谓语用复数。