CLOZE TEST: TOUGH TARGETS

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US President Barack Obama has announced [0] _____ targets for new fuel-efficient vehicles in order to cut pollution and lower dependence on oil [1] _____.

Describing the move [2] _____ "historic", Mr Obama said the country's first-ever national standards would reduce vehicle emissions by about a third by 2016.

The plan [3] _____ to replace overlapping rules on emissions and efficiency [4] _____ by federal agencies and states.

US carmakers and environmental groups have expressed [5] _____ for the move.

[6] _____ the proposed standards, manufacturers would be [7] _____ to begin improving fuel efficiency by 5% a year from 2012.

By 2016, they [8] _____ have to reach an average of 39 miles per gallon for [9] _____ cars, and 30 miles per gallon for light lorries.

Announcing the plan at the White House, Mr Obama said the status quo was "no [10] _____ r acceptable" and led to dependence on oil exporting countries and climate change.

The new standards are expected to [11] _____ the price of new vehicles by about $1,300 (£839) per vehicle by 2016.

But the president said this would be offset by lower fuel cost [12] _____ three years.

The US is the biggest car market with more than 250 million cars and light lorries on the road.

The [13] _____ nationwide standard for exhaust emissions is expected to [14] _____ the amount of carbon dioxide produced by new passenger vehicles by 34%.

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The Safe Climate Campaign, an environmental group, welcomed the plan saying it was "major signal" that the US was [15] _____ about curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

Carmakers are also hailing a single nationwide standard, [16] _____ years of court battles to stop California and other states setting their own tough pollution controls.

The president said: "As a [17] _____ of this agreement we will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the [18] _____ of the vehicles sold in the next five years."

In that period, the [19] _____ in oil will amount to last year's combined US imports from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria, Mr Obama [20] _____. 

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