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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 the 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 November’s 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 president’s popularity rose following the arrest of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in December shows how useful the capture of Laden would be．
The latest information suggests the election will be close, with 48 percent of Americans saying they will vote for Bush and 46 percent backing Kerry．
In order to seize Laden, thousands of US soldiers were moved from Iraq to Afghanistan earlier this week, according to a US official Further efforts have been made to strengthen Afghanistan’s border area with Pakistan, with soldiers checking nearby villages more frequently than before．
64．The American presidential election will be held between _____and ____．
A．George W Bush; Jimmy Carter B．John Kerry; Thomas Jefferson
C．George W Bush; John Kerry D．George Bush; John Kerry
65．Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A．The arrest of Saddam did Bush some good．
B．The American soldiers have sent Laden to prison．
C．The arrest of Laden will make no difference to the election．
D．Laden may hide himself far away from the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan
66．We can infer from the passage that _____．
A．it’s difficult to catch Laden
B．Bush will lose the presidential election
C．Americans didn’t set out to catch Laden until 2003
D．American presidential election will take place in October
67．What does the underlined word “banned” in paragraph 4 mean?
A．Advanced. B．Dangerous．C．Forbidden D．Expensive．
D
“Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop,” says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor．“Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop．Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware．But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they’ll say, ‘Well, that’s not shopping．That’s research．’ “
In other words, what men and women call “buying things” and how they approach that task are different．
Women will wander through several 1,000-aquare-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress．Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder（攝錄像一體機）．Women see shopping as a social event．Men see it as a special task or a game to be won．
“Men are frequently shopping to win,” says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago．“They want to get the best deal．They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they do that it makes them happy．” When women shop, “They’re doing it in away that they want everybody to be very happy,” says Ann．“They’re kind of shopping for love．”
Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen,” City University Zukin says．“And although men’s magazines such as GQ and Esquire have long had shopping articles, it’s TV that has the eye of young male shoppers,” say Ann and Zukin．
“Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeen magazine or Lucky is used by girls,” says Zukin, “to help make clothing and toiletry（化妝品） choices．”
“Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it,” Loyola’s Ann says．And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan．All men love to buy but don’t want to get cheatef. Ann adds, “There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl magnets．Women like it．”
68．From the first paragraph we can find that _____．
A．men are all dishonest B．men are all book-lovers
C．men hate to shop actually D．men like to shop in fact
69．Compared to women, men usually treat shopping _____．
A．honestly B．seriously C．frequently D．foolishly
70． A．As is shown in this passage, teenage girls go shopping _____．
A．only with their moms B．only with their sisters
C．often following magazines D．often following TV shows
71．The underlined work “magnets” in the last paragraph means _____．
A．magazines that attract young women
B．persons that have a powerfulattraction
C．tools that can help housewives much
D．vegetables that make women beautiful
