单项选择题

Good morning, boys and girls! You may be used to replying: Good morning, SIR! Well, you won’’t hear that here, because you are now here in our campus, ready to venture out from under the wings or shadow of your parents and your teachers. It is first principle in this University that we treat you as an adult and expect adult responsibility. When you graduate in three or four years in this very Auditorium, you will be men and women ready for life’’s great challenges. We want all freshmen to stay on campus so that they can begin to become part of our campus community. This year, about 80% of you are staying on campus. Staying on campus is great for convenience. You can wake up at the last minute and still make it to class, or sneak back to the room in between lectures for a snooze if you had a really late night doing homework or just partying. Now, look around you, at the persons seated to your left and your right. Do you know each other Introduce yourself and strike up a conversation. Same thing in the dorms. They may be great for forming a study group or a basketball team. You will find, ten or twenty years later, that the friendship formed in university lasts and endures, and will be something you cherish through life. If you talk to older people, like me for example, you will find that all of us will tell you the soft skills are the central factors behind success. The hard skills that you acquire through your formal education gets you started. But they soon become out of date. Besides picking up new knowledge and experience, the inner strength and your people skills will play an increasingly important part in your successful and happy life. We will help you achieve this more intangible learning as you spend three or four years with us. Over the years, we have been creating the best possible academic programmes to prepare you for your career. You may have the opportunity to go for double degrees, or a very general liberal education. I wish you a growing and enriching time in this great University. May you grow to be great people, respectable young men and women! What does the "soft skill" refer to according to the 4th paragraph