Question

It took ______ people as well as ______ time to build the pyramid.

A．a(chǎn) large number of; a great many	B．a(chǎn) great many; a large amount of
C．a(chǎn) great many of; large amounts of	D．a(chǎn) large amount of; a great deal of

Answer 1

B

試題分析：考查近義詞組辨析：a large number of修飾可數(shù)名詞的復數(shù)形式 ；a great many修飾可數(shù)名詞的復數(shù)形式; large amounts of ，a large amount of和a great deal of則修飾不可數(shù)名詞。句意：花了許多人大量時間建金字塔。選B。
點評：相似的詞組要注意意義的不同，特別是這些一系列的詞組，最好放在具體的句子中間記憶，容易辨別。