The number of people present at the meetingabout 1000 a large number of whom experts fr

问题补充：

The number of people present at the meetingabout 1000 , a large number of whom experts from abroad.

A. was; was

B. were; were

C. was ; were

D. were; was

答案：

A. was; was

B. were; were

(答案→)C. was ; were

D. were; was

解析：考查短语The number of和 a number of的区别，The number of表示…的数量；a number of表示许多的，修饰可数名词或不可数名词，句子意思“出席会议的人数是1000，他们大部分是来自于国外的专家”，所以选C