单选题
Born in 1927, Lawrence Kohlberg spent three years as a junior engineer in the merchant marine before entering college. After those years at sea, he was ready to buckle down and push through the rigorous program at Chicago in record time. He completed the four-year B.A. Degree in 1949 after only two years' work. He clearly demonstrated a great capacity for academic scholarship, and it was natural for him to enroll as a Ph.D. candidate at the same university. He completed his doctorate in 1958; after two years for his undergraduate studies, it took him nine years for the Ph.D. He remarked wryly that it only proved you couldn't accurately predict human behavior in all cases.
One of the major reasons for delay was his eventual topic, moral development in children and adolescents. A major portion of his doctoral work was in traditional area of clinical psychology and child development, including a traineeship at the famous Children's Hospital in Boston. A substantial part of his difficulty was that all the time he was learning the traditional theories, including psychoanalytic views, he found in himself a growing skepticism. He began to evolve an alternative set of ideas to explain how children develop moral reasoning. What started as a traditional thesis on the relationship between the superego (the Freudian term for conscience) and moral behavior was transformed into a remarkably original framework for moral development in stages. It is rare for a young Ph.D. candidate to produce truly new insights into human behavior theory. It was uniquely creative for his thesis to force almost a complete revision of moral development theory as well.
With the completion of the thesis, finally, after nine years of work, he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Chicago in 1962. Just six years later he was offered and accepted a full professorship at Harvard University and joined that faculty to form an innovative graduate program in human development. He was also awarded a special five-year Research Career Award by the National Institute of Mental Health to promote his longitudinal study on stages of moral development in adults as well as in children and adolescents. His major significance derives from the possible applications of the theory to promote psychologically healthy human beings. He is presently developing a series of intervention and teaching procedures that show promise of deliberately improving our level of moral judgment and moral maturity. If we are concerned about improving the quality of interpersonal human relationships, his work at present represents the most helpful insights and processes to help us attain that objective.

单选题 With his experience at sea, Kohlberg was able to ______.
A. complete the postgraduate studies and get his B.A. degree.
B. enthusiastcally engage himself in his postgraduate studies and get his B.A. degree ahead of the normal time.
C. enthusiastically devote himself to his undergraduate studies and get his B.A. degree earlier than usual.
D. complete the undergraduate studies for his B.A. degree.

单选题 According to the passage, Kohlberg was ______.
A. a born achiever for all professional work.
B. strong enough to be promoted to full professorship.
C. enrolled as a Ph.D. candiadte because he got his B.A. degree earlier.
D. equipped with born competitivenss to be enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate.

单选题 The statement in the first paragraph that "you couldn't accurately predict human behavior in all cases" roughly means ______.
A. people can't really tell what they can do until it happens.
B. people usually do not know life happenings before the events.
C. people are not allowed to predict life happenings with accuracy.
D. people are not good enough at predicting life events.

单选题 It took longer time for Kohlberg to get the Ph. D degree because ______.
A. he had spent more time on clinical psychology than he should.
B. his interest for the doctoral work was in the traditional area of research.
C. he had worked at the Children's Hospital and wasted some time.
D. he had to shift the focus of his research from clinical studies to a new one.

单选题 The shift of his research focus was ______.
A. between the superego and stages of children's moral development.
B. from the traditional way to a more modern one.
C. between clinical studies of children's behavior and research on superego.
D. from clinical psychology and child development to the stages of moral development.

单选题 One remarkable thing about Kohlberg was that ______.
A. he was able to buckle down on what he was doing.
B. he was truly insightful and able to bring a change in the direction and depth of research.
C. he could accomplish greater things when he was still very young.
D. he had made new framework for his doctorate work with good vision.

单选题 According to the passage, Kohlberg ______.
A. got a special Research Career Award in 1968.
B. was promoted to a full professor in 1968.
C. accepted a full professorship in 1962.
D. Harvard University promoted him to a full professor in 1962.

单选题 Which is the following statements is NOT true?
A. Kohlberg was largely concerned with the moral development of children.
B. Kohlberg was interested more in the traditional way of research than in the new.
C. Kohlberg had rich insigts in the behavior of and development of children.
D. Kohlberg seemed to have a keen interest in researching into both moral judgement and moral maturity.