For a long time. Zaha Hadid was known as 'the paper architect', someone whose grand designs never left the page to become real buildings. But in recent years her buildings have ........... (A) up like mushrooms all over the world. Hadid is now one of the most ........ (B) architects of our age. She is also one of the few women ......... (C) in a profession still dominated by men. In Britain, where Hadid lives, less than 15% of practicing architects are women. ....... (D) enter the profession, but either because of difficulty in getting recognized .......... (E) the deep conservatism surrounding most British architecture, over half of them leave. But being 'a woman in a man's world' seems to have given Hadid extra strength. At times she felt she was ........ (F) her head against a wall trying to get her designs accepted, but she persevered. Famous for her .......... (G) independence, she was called by one of her former tutors 'a planet in her own orbit'. Pinning down her individual style is difficult. Certainly she has been influenced by the modern trend in architecture that likes to play with the traditional shape of buildings and ........... (H) unpredictable angles and surfaces. Working in this way, she and her fellow architects have produced various rather .......... (I) spaceship-like structures that seem to defy the normal laws of engineering, ........ (G) have intrigued and excited the public. Cloze Test (A):