2011届高三英语一轮阅读理解练习(7)
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If you can't catch the bad guy, it's game over-- this is the rule of life for computer game players. But similar thoughts might be worrying US President George W Bush as he prepares for election year with the world's most wanted man still out of his reach.
The hunt for Laden has been going on since the attack on New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Progress has been slow and, with John Kerry winning the race last Tuesday to compete against Bush in presidential elections, the president needs results.
“If Laden can be caught before the presidential election. Bush will get an upper hand”, a senior US official told the New York Times. The American public's support for the war in Iraq has been falling, especially as the Bush government cannot find the banned weapons it said were in the country. But the way in which the preside |