Question

Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir(回憶錄)of Ralph W. Tyler who is one of the most famous men in American education.

Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19－year－old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked_on_teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.

Graduate work at the University of Chicago found him connected with honorable educators Charles Judd and W. W. Charters, whose ideas of teaching and testing had an effect on his later work. In 1927, he became a teacher of Ohio State University where he further developed a new method of testing.

Tyler became well－known nationality in 1938, when he carried his work with the Eight－Year Study from Ohio State University to the University of Chicago at the invitation of Robert Hutchins.

Tyler was the first director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a position he held for fourteen years. There, he firmly believed that researchers should be free to seek an independent spirit in their work.

Although Tyler officially retired in 1967, he never actually retired. He served on a long list of educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Even in his 80s he travelled across the country to advise teachers and management people on how to set objectives(目標) that develop the best teaching and learning within their schools.

5．Who are most probably interested in Ralph W. Tyler's memoir?

  A．Top managers.　　　　　　B．Language learners.

  C．Serious educators.       D.Science organizations.

6．The underlined phrases “hooked on teaching” in Paragraph 2 probably mean ________.

  A．attracted to teaching     B．tired of teaching

  C．satisfied with teaching    D．unhappy about teaching

7．Where did Tyler work as the leader of a research center for over 10 years?

  A．The University of Chicago.  B．Stanford University.

  C．Ohio State University .      D．Nebraska University.

8．Tyler is said to have never actually retired because ________.

A．he developed a new method of testing

B．he called for free spirit in research

C．he was still active in giving advice

D．he still led the Eight－Year Study

9．What cannot we learn about Ralph W. Tyler in this article?

  A．When and where he was born.

  B．Where he studied and worked.

  C．His devotion to American education.

  D．His life with his family.

Answer 1

5．解析：選C。細節理解題。從文章第一句話不難看出最有可能對Ralph W. Tyler的回憶錄產生興趣的是教育工作者。

6．解析：選A。詞義猜測題。be hooked on意為“著迷于……的”。

7．解析：選B。細節理解題。根據第五段的第一句話得知。

8．解析：選C。推理判斷題。作者在文章的最后一段提到盡管Tyler在1967年退休，但他并未停止在美國國內及世界各地從事與教育有關的活動，他對教學及管理方面的建議至今仍有現實意義。

9．解析：選D。細節理解題。通讀全文可知，文章沒有提及他的家庭生活。