题目：
It took ______ people as well as ______ time to build the pyramid.
A．a large number of; a great many
B．a great many; a large amount of
C．a great many of; large amounts of
D．a large amount of; a great deal of
答案：
答案：B
题目分析：考查近义词组辨析：a large number of修饰可数名词的复数形式 ；a great many修饰可数名词的复数形式; large amounts of ，a large amount of和a great deal of则修饰不可数名词。句意：花了许多人大量时间建金字塔。选B。
点评：相似的词组要注意意义的不同，特别是这些一系列的词组，最好放在具体的句子中间记忆，容易辨别。
