Directions: Read the following text from which 10 words have been removed. Choose from 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.
   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 1 of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence s invention of the cyclotron in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were 2 and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of Le Conte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits 3 the many distinguished physicists who made history here, 4 all of them white males. 5 display. There, among the photos

    But climb up to the third floor and you'll see a are portraits of the 6 head of the department, of current faculty members and students, whose research 7 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 8 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 9 . "I believe things are getting better," she says, "but they're not getting better as to 10-- as I would like."

[A] circumstance

[B] confidence

[C] covers

[D]current

[E] deals

[F] different

[G] exposing

[H] fast

[I] honoring

[j] hope

[K] presently

[L] rare

[M] realistic

[N] site

[O] virtually