The river is very dirty. ______ people want to swim in it.

这道题应选C,可是few不是修饰可数名词吗?people是不可数名词!
A、a few B、a little C、few
n.

I saw many people at the dance.
我在舞会上见到了许多人。
Were there many people at the party?
参加晚会的人很多吗?

按照这种说法,岂不是要说much people而非many people?

Used as a plural people is a form with no exactly corresponding singular. (English is not odd in this respect: the equivalent word is anomalous in Spanish, Italian, Russian, and many other languages.) In the past, grammarians have sometimes insisted that people is a collective noun that should not be used as a substitute for persons when referring to a specific number of individuals, as in Six people were arrested. But people has always been used in such contexts, and the distinction is now so widely ignored in general writing that it seems pedantic to insist on it. Personsis still preferred in quasilegal contexts, however, as in Vehicles containing fewer than three persons may not use the left lane during rush hours.Only the singular person is used in compounds involving a specific numeral:
People用做复数时无确切的单数形式。(在此方面英语是不固定的:在西班牙语、意大利语和许多其它语言则逗中相应的词是不规则的。)孙燃卖 过去,语法学家曾坚持说 people是集合名词,不能替代描述特定数量个体的 persons,如在 六个人被捕了中。但是 people常用在这样的上下文中,其区别在一般的书面语中被大大忽略了,再坚持其区别则显得多余。 Persons仍多段宽被用在法律性的语境中,例如 在交通高峰期容纳少于三个人的汽车不允许使用左单行道。只有单数 person用在与具体数目有关的复合词中:
a six-person car;
六人汽车;
a two-person show. But people is used in other compounds: people mover; people power.These examples are exceptions to the general rule that plural nouns cannot be used in such compounds; note that we do not say teethpaste or books-burning.
二人演出。但 people也可用在其它复合词中: people mover;people power。这些例子是复数名词不能用于复合词的规则的例外情况;请注意我们不能说 teethpaste或 books-burning。
people是可数名词 本身就是一种复数形式 不表个体义
C。
[辩析]
1.
few

little
作形容词用,都表示“几乎没有”,相当于一个否定词。具体区别:
(1)
few
后面跟复数可数名词。
e.g.
few
books
few
students
(2)
little
后面跟单数不可数名词。
e.g.
little
water
little
food
e.g.
He
has
few
friends.
他没有几个塌滚毁朋友。
They
has
little
money.
他们没有什麽钱
2.
a
few

a
little
都表示肯定的意思,指“有一点,有一些”。具体区别:团备
(1)
a
few
后加可数名词复数
(2)a
little
后加不可数名词单数。
e.g.
I'm
going
to
buy
a
few
bananas.
I
can
speak
only
a
little
Chinese.
3.
a
little

little
也可以用作副词,
表示“有点”“稍稍”
表示“很备孙少”
e.g.
----Can
you
speak
English?
----Yes,
but
only
a
little.
This
book
is
a
little
more
difficult
than
that
one.

可修饰形容词比较级)
She
slept
little
last
night.
昨天晚上,她没有怎么睡觉。