one of+可数名词复数 单数
About 50 percent of the students in our school are girls.
我们学校大约百分之五十的学生是女生。
Great quantities of fish are caught in the deep sea.
在深海处抓了很多鱼。
There is a large quantity of milk.
有大量的牛奶。
[名师点津] (1)"more+复数名词+than one"作主语时,谓语动词用复数形式。
More children than one are playing in the shade of the tree.
不止一个孩子在树荫下玩。
(2)在"one of+复数名词/代词+定语从句"结构中,定语从句中的谓语动词用复数形式。只有one之前出现the only, the very等修饰语时,定语从句的谓语动词才用单数形式。试比较:
He is one of the students who have passed the exam.
他是通过这次考试的学生之一。
He is the only one of the students who has passed the exam.
他是通过这次考试的唯一的学生。
[即时演练2]
(1)对比填空(用be动词的适当形式填空)
①A number of new houses were built there three years ago.
②At present, the number of the unemployed is still increasing.
③A large quantity of money was spent on the bridge.
④Quantities of time were spent in saving the wounded.
⑤The rest of the lecture is dull.
⑥The rest of the bicycles are on sale today.
(2)用所给词的适当形式填空
(陕西高考改编)It is reported that many a new house is_being_built (build) at present in the disaster area.
三、不定代词作主语
主语 谓语动词 either, each (of), anyone, somebody, everything, no one等 单数