Passage B
         The big winner of the recent election in Britain was unquestionably DavidCameron, whose upset majority took pollsters by surprise. But running a closesecond was Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland and the leaders of theScottish National Party.
         By taking 56 seats in Scotland, she transformed her party, which led thecampaign for Scottish independence in September 2014, into the third-largest bloc inthe House of Common and herself into a force to be reckoned with.
         “Transformed” has become an operative word. Since last November, when Ms.Sturgeon became the party leaders, she has not only stepped out of the shadow of hermentor, Alex Salmond, she has also moved on from her former subdued trouser suits,donning a de facto mantle of power； not a red ermine-rimmed cloak but a redpencil-skirt dress. As well as an Angela Merkel-style blond bob.
          In its echoes of what has become the accepted uniform of female leaderseverywhere, left or right no matter, her image evolution signaled her ambitions andrevealed the way women are using clothing to manage their transition to power.
         “It’s a soft power look,” said Holly Mitchell, a founder and designer, along withLynsey Blackburn, of the Edinburgh boutique Totty Rocks, who met Ms. Sturgeonwhen the first minister bought one of their dresses and a matching jacket around thetime of her swearing in. Ms. Sturgeon has since been pictured in, among others, theirBetty dress (available on their website for 179 pounds, or about $277), their Blitzdress (which she wore to watch the election results come in, also £179) and theirBow dress (£159).
         All share the same basic characteristics: bright colors, straight knee-length skirts,three-quarter sleeves and a complete lack of controversy.
        The apparel blueprint was established by Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000 when,after a much-chronicled, and much-maligned, period of wardrobe experimentationwhen she was the first lady, she settled into a familiar trouser-suit groove as asenator, one based on an elongated jacket shape with a bit of variety in material anddetail.
        But it really achieved prominence with Ms. Merkel’s rise in 2005, when theGerman chancellor adopted what has become her signature: a pair of straight-cuttrousers and contrast three-button jacket with diagonal pockets.
 Questions 5-7
【題組】5. What is the main idea of the above reading?
(A) Nicola Sturgeon, the Head of the Scottish National Party
(B) Totty Rocks, an Edinburg Boutique, has become a Celebrity Attraction
(C) When Clothes Make the Powerful Woman
(D) Angela Merkel’s Rise in 2005