3.答案:D

解析:当Either …or …连接两个主语时,要以or后的主语确定谓语动词是用单数还是用复数形式 ,称之谓邻近原理.因为the headmaster 是单数,又因为这件事发生在将来,D为正确答案.

试题十九 it 的用法

2.答案:C

解析:the number of…的数量,表示单数;a number of许多,表示复数.第一个空要填was;第二个空要填were.

1.答案:B

解析:主语Each of the students是单数,要选hopes作谓语.

3.(NMET 1994, 17) Either you or the headmaster _______ the prizes to those gifted students at the meeting.

A.is handing out B.are to hand out

C.are handing out D.is to hand out

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2.(NMET 1996, 14) 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

1.(NMET 1998, 15) —Each of the students, working hard at his or her lessons, _______ to go to university.

-So do I.

A.hope B.hopes C.hoping D.hoped

23.答案:C

解析:as在定语从句中作主语,正如…….an advancing country正在发展的国家;an advanced country发达国家.20至30年后,中国将成为发达国家,要用an advanced country.

试题十八 主谓一致

22.答案:B

解析:第一个定语从句的先行词是those years,表示时间,要用关系副词when;第二个句子是非限制性定语从句,要用关系代词which.

21.答案:D

解析:这是非限制性定语从句.介词by表示时间的意思是"到那时为至".介词on后接具体日期.

20.答案:A

解析:the way 后接定语从句时,有三种形式:(1)省略连接词;(2)用关系代词that连接;(3)用in which连接.这道题属于第一种情况.