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Part = 3 \* ROMAN III Reading (Reading in Depth)Section APassage 1The world will miss its agreed target to stem biodiversity loss by next year, according to experts gathering in Cape Town for a landmark conference devoted to biodiversity science.The goal was agreed at the 6th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in April 2003. Some 123 world ministers __1__ to “achieve, by 2010, a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss at the local, national and regional levels, as a ___2__ to poverty alleviation and to the benefit of all life on Earth.”“We will __3___ miss the target for reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and therefore also miss the 2015 environmental targets with the UN Millennium Development Goals to __4____ health and livelihoods for the world’s poorest and most __5___ people,” says Georgina Mace of Imperial College, London, and Vice- Chair of the international DIVERSITAS program.“It is hard to image a more important __6___ than protecting the ecosystem services underpinned by biodiversity,” says Mace. “Biodiversity is __7___ to humans having food, fuel, clean water and a habitable climate.”“Yet changes to ecosystems and losses of biodiversity have continued to ____8__. Since 1992, even the most conservative estimates agree that an area of tropical rainforest greater than the size of California has been ___9__ mostly for food and fuel. Species ___10__ rates are at least 100 times those in pre-human times and are expected to continue to increase.”A. applied B. priority C. fundamental D. committed E important F. converted G. accelerate H. improve I. contribution J. made K response L. certainly M. extinction N. accordingly O. vulnerablePassage 2Future automobiles will take many forms, with electricity and alternative fuels certain to play an ___1__ role. Toyota has made many advances to improve fuel economy, creating breakthrough __2___ used in many current models, and in coming