单选题 The number of people invited to the meeting ______ two hundred, but a number of them ______ absent.
A) were, was C) was, were
B) was, was D) were, were

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】the number of意为……的数量，做主语时，谓语动词要用单数；a number of……大量的，其后谓语动词要用复数。