Part D
Directions:
Read the following text fiom which 10 words have been removed. Choose fiom the words A-O the
most suitable one to fill each numbered gap in the text(46-55). There are FIVE extra words that you
do not need to use. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET 1.
To get a sense of bow women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the 46 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence s invention of the cyclotron(——j——ll——-——) in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were 47 and, even
today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits
—— the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 49 all of them white males. 50 display. There, among the photos
But climb up to the third floor and you' 11 see a are portraits of the 51_______head of the department, of current faculty members and students,whose research 52 everything from the mechanics Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they' re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real 53 may be in the smaller photos to the right: graduate and undergraduate students, about 9——0 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country' s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also 54 . "I believe things are getting better," she says, "but they' re not getting better as to 55____-- as I would like. "
[ A] circumstance [ B ] confidence
[ C] covers [ D]current
[ F ] different
[ E ] deals [ H] fast
[ G] exposing
[ j ] hope
[ I ] honoring
[ L] rare
[ K ] presently [ N ] site
[ M] realistic
[ o] virtually
