单选题 A great number of students ______ going to attend the important lecture next Friday.

【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[分析] 本题测试主谓一致的用法。a(great)number of+复数名词,后跟谓语动词的复数形式,表示“许多”。区别于the number of+复数名词,表示“…的数量”,后跟动词的单数形式。B项符合题意。
例:The number of the players of each team is eleven in the football game.
A number of Europeans went to America several hundred years ago.