【正文】 skills are needed to get and hold down a job.(D) What makes for an excellent ability to express yourself.17.(A) Managerial.(B) Technological.(C) Financial.(D) Social.18.(A) Basic to advanced knowledge of puter application.(B) Ability to calculate all transactions, profits and costs.(C) Creativity in making presentations to clients.(D) Proficiency in at least one foreign language.19.(A) To create your own databases on the puter.(B) To enhance your social skills by holding parties with your friends.(C) To use the puter in free time and bee familiar with its operation.(D) To store as many telephone numbers and addresses as you can.20.(A) Graduating students.(B) Trainee managers.(C) Professional secretaries.(D) Lowlevel administrative staff.SECTION 2: READING TESTs degree. The study says: The gradient is a worldwide occurrence, seen in lowine, middleine and highine countries. It means we are all implicated.The result is that even within rich countries such as Britain there are striking inequalities in life expectancy. The poorest men in Glasgow have a life expectancy of 54, lower than the average in India. The answer, the report says, is empowerment, of individuals, munities and whole countries. Technical and medical solutions such as medical care are without doubt necessary. But they are insufficient. Professor Marmot said: We talk about three kinds of empowerment. If people don39。s largest power pany hopes to stand tradition on its head and profit by selling farmers less, not more, electricity. To do that, Idaho Power is vastly expanding its energyefficiency programs for 395,000 residential customers, small businesses, and farmers. Usually the more customers save, the less utilities make. But under an innovative deal with state regulators in March, Idaho Power gets paid for its plants and equipment and boosts profits by winning incentive payments for reducing electric demand.It39。t recovering our fixed costs, says Mike Youngblood, an analyst for Idaho Power. Now the anticipation is that we will recover our fixed cost, no more or less. And our customers will see their bill go down if they invest in energy efficiency.One key reason utilities are often willing to decouple or even leading proponents of the proposals is because the costs of building a power plant has risen dramatically. A 500megawatt coalfired plant that cost $1 billion just a few years ago might cost $ billion today, industry experts say. Add to that growing uncertainty about future costs. Globalwarming legislation could put a price of $30 per ton on carbondioxide emissions from power plants. That could make coal, the cheapest power today, more costly. Another factor is the rising munity opposition to coalfired power plant construction.In North Carolina, where regulators recently refused a Duke Energy Corp. proposal to build a power plant, the pany has instead put forward a controversial decoupling proposal. The plan would pay the pany to meet efficiency standards, although consumer advocates and even environmental groups question whether it39。s how you do it that39。s no time! The polar ice cap39。Neill. But as pop culture was starting to recognize it, we realized we could do a better job positioning ourselves.Clearly this is not all pure altruism. Those popular, energystingy pact fluorescent bulbs? NBC39。s an unlikely marriage of motives. Adsupported TV is a consumption medium: it persuades you to want and buy stuff. Traditional home shows about renovating and decorating are catnip for retailers like Lowe39。s a story about getting away with murder, and the water story is woven in.Of course, in an era of rampant product placement, there are worse things than persuading viewers to buy a less wasteful light bulb by hanging one over Jack Bauer as he tortures a terrorist. The greatest challengefor viewers as well as programmersis not letting entertainment bee a substitute for action。s audience.(D) They are young adults and senior citizens. of the following best explains the sentence It39。s subject peoples. The waxing and waning of the British moustache precisely mirrored the fortunes of the Empireblooming beneath the noses of the East India Company39。s epic 650page political, cultural, economic and social history of the Empire, which is published on October 18. It is a running gag in a serious book, but it does give one a point of reference, he said yesterday. In the 18th and early 19th century, sophisticated Britons wore wigs but spurned facial hair. The exception was the King, George III, whose unshaven appearance was mocked as a sign of his madness. However, by the 1830s the moustache movement was in the ascendancy. British officers, copying the impressive moustaches that they encountered on French and Spanish soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars, started the craze, but the real impetus came form India.Just as British troops in Afghanistan today are encouraged to grow beards to ease their dealings with local tribesmen, so the attitudes of Indian troops under the mand of East India Company officers in the first half of the 19th century altered the appearance of the British soldier. For the Indian sepoy the moustache was a symbol of virility. They laughed at the unshaven British officers, Dr Brendon said. In 1854 moustaches were made pulsory for the pany39。. Moustaches were clipped, trimmed and waxed until they curved like sabres and bristled like bayonets. After 1918 moustaches became thinner and humbler as the Empire began to gasp for breath, even as it continued to expand territorially. It had been fatally wounded, Dr Brendon suggests, by the very belief in the freedom that it had preached. After the victory over Germany and Japan in 1945, independence movements across the redpainted sections of the world map, and Britain39。s toothbrush, writes Dr Brendon. In Britain it was also synonymous with the Colonel Blimps clinging to an outmoded idea of colonial greatness.In Eden