【2015年襄阳市初中毕业生学业水平考试英语试题】 ---I hear two high speed railways will be built in Xiangyang __________ a few years. ---That sounds great. It’ll be more convenient and faster for us to go out.
---Do you know_______ the books on the shelves?
--- Sorry, I can’t count them, because there are _______books.
A. a number of; the number of
B. a number of; a number
C. the number of; a number of