【问】 most students与most of the students有什么区别?
 【答】在most (some)+名词结构里，名词都是“无定的”，如同在a(an)+单数名词结构里名词是无定的(说话人和听话人尚不能共同确认所指)一样。因此，不能说most the students，most the Germans或most my students或most chairman Mao's works。
 1. Most doctors don't smoke. (LEG)
 大多数医生不吸烟。
 2. Most wine is imported.
 大部分酒都是进口的。
 3. Some children learn languages easily and others with difficulty. (OSD)
 有一些孩子学习语言极容易，另一些孩子则很困难。
 4. As I dressed，the radio began broadcasting warnings in several languages to put on gasmasks and go into the sealed room，which my wife，Eva，like most people in Israel，hadprepared under the instructions of the Civil Defence Authorities. (Associated Press)
 当我穿衣的时候，广播开始用几种语言播放警报，告戒人们戴上防毒面罩进入密室。我妻子艾娃当时同大多数在以色列的人一样，已经按照民防当局的指示把防毒面具准备好了。(美联社)(译文引自《现代英语报刊阅读词典》)
 而在most (some) of+名词结构里，名词是有定的(说话人和听话人能够确认所指)，它必定带有定冠词或物主代词等限定词：
 1. Most of her arguments were founded on fact. (FWF)
 她的大部分论点都是建立在事实基础上的。
 2. He used to spend most of his time in the library. (EED)
 他过去常常在图书馆里度过他的大部分时间。
 3. I’ll lend you some of these books.
 我将把这些书中的一部分借给你。
 4. Some of the milk had turned sour.(Zandvoort)
 一些牛奶已经变酸。
 5. Most of my friends are over thirty，but some are younger. (PEU)
 我的朋友多数是三十岁以上的人，但也有些年轻些的。
 6. Most of our members are busy，successful，intelligent people with enquiring minds andvaried interests. (Reader’s Digest)
 我们的成员大都是忙碌、成功和聪明的人们，不耻下问，兴趣广泛。(读者文摘)(译文引自《现代英语报刊阅读词典》)。
 由于代词总是指代有定的人或物，只能采用most(some) of us这样的结构：
 Most of us enjoy reading. (CGEL)
 我们中的大多数人喜欢阅读书籍。
 请做下面的试题：
 1. Most William Faulkner’s novels deal with the universal problems of evil as represented by family disintegration and degeneration. (TOEFL，80.3).
 2. “I like your furniture very much. ” “Thank you. We bought____in Denmark.”
 A. the most of them B. most of them
 C. the more of it D. most of it(TOEFL，70.6)
 3. ____Germans like to drink beer.
 A. The most B. Most
 C. Most of D. Most of the(攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题，84B)
 4. The most of the theories about its origin assume that the earth began in a gaseousstate，moved through a liquid state，and finally became partly solid. (TOEFL，80. 3)
 5. ____states in America require the children to attend school until the age of 16.
 A. Most B. The most
 C. Most of D. The most of
 请分析并改正下面句子里的错误：
 1. I think that pollution is a serious problem in most of the countries nowadays.
 2. Most the people like to spend Christmas at home.
 3. Most of major firms in Japan use word processors.