主谓一致专项练
( ) 1. One-third of the area _____ covered with green trees. About seventy percent of the trees _____ been planted.
A. are; have
B. is; has
C. is; have
D. are; has
( ) 2. The number of teachers in our college _____ greatly increased last term. A number of teachers in this school _____ from the countryside.
A. was; is
B. was; are
C. were; are
D. were; is
( ) 3. What _____ the population of China? One-third of the population _____ workers here.
A. is; are
B. are; are
C. is; is
D. are; is
( ) 4. Not only he but also we _____ right. He as well as we _____ right.
A. are; are
B. are; is
C. is; is
D. is; are
( ) 5. What he’d like _____ a digital watch. What he`d like _____ textbooks.
A. are; are
B. is; is
C. is; are
D. are; is
( ) 6. He is one of the boys who _____ here on time. He is the only one of the boys who _____ here on time.
A. has come; have come
B. have come; has come
C. has come; has come
D. have come; have come
( ) 7. Either you or he _____ interested in playing chess. _____ you or he fond of music at present?
A. are; Are
B. is; Are
C. are; Is
D. is; Is
( ) 8. Many a professor _____ looking forward to visiting Germany now. Many scientists _____ studied animals and plants in the last two years.
A. is; have
B. is; has
C. are; have
D. is; are
( ) 9. A knife and a fork _____ on the table. A knife and fork _____ on the table.
A. is; is
B. are; are
C. are; is
D. is; are
( ) 10. Her family _____ much larger than mine four years ago. Her family _____ dancing and singing when I came in last night.
A. were; was
B. was; were
C. was; was
D. were; were
( ) 11. How and why Jack came to China _____ not known. When and where to build the new library _____ not been decided.
A. is; has
B. are; has
C. is; have
D. are; have
( ) 12. Now Tom together with his classmates _____ football on the playground.
A. play
B. are playing
C. plays
D. is playing
( ) 13. Two hundred and fifty pounds _____ too unreasonable a price for a second-hand car.
A. is
B. are
C. were
D. be
( ) 14. All but Dick _____ in Class Three this term.
A. are
B. is
C. were
D. was
( ) 15. Soon after the earthquake, every man, woman and child _____ about it.
A. were talking
B. was talking
C. talk
D. talks
( ) 16. _____ of the land in that district _____ covered with trees and grass.
A. Two fifth; is
B. Two fifths; are
C. Two fifth; are
D. Two fifths; is
( ) 17. My friend and classmate Paul _____ motorcycles in his spare time.
A. race
B. races
C. is raced
D. is racing
( ) 18. There _____ a pen, two pencils, and three books on the desk.
A. are
B. is
C. has
D. have
( ) 19. The factory, including its machines and buildings, _____ burnt last night.
A. is
B. are
C. were
D. was
( ) 20. Climbing hills _____ of great help to health.
A. is
B. are
C. were
D. be
( ) 21. Not the teacher but the students _____ excited.
A. is
B. has
C. are
D. have
( ) 22. The injured in the tsunami _____ good care of by some medical teams.
A. is taken
B. are being taken
C. are taking
D. is being taken
( ) 23. As I have a meeting at four, ten minutes _____ all that I can spare to talk with you.
A. are
B. was
C. is
D. were
( ) 24. Each man and each woman _____ asked to help when the fire broke out.
A. is
B. was
C. are
D. were
( ) 25. About 60 percent of the students _____ from the south; the rest of them _____ from the north and foreign countries.
A. are; is
B. is; is
C. is; are
D. are; are
答案及部分解析：
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1. “分数或百分数+of the+名词或代词”作主语时，谓语动词的单、复数形式取决于名词或代词的单、复数形式。
2. “the number of+名词”作主语，谓语动词常用单数形式。“a number of+名词”作主语，谓语动词常用复数形式。
3. “分数或百分数+of the population”作主语，谓语动词常用复数形式。
4. or, either...or, neither...nor, not only...but also等(关联)连词连接两个并列主语时，谓语动词的数按“就近原则”处理。注意：即使在疑问句中，动词的数也应与最近的主语保持一致。as well as连接两个并列主语时，谓语动词的数应与前一主语保持一致。
5. what引导的名词性从句作主语时，谓语动词常用单数形式。但当作表语的名词为复数，或what
