精品文档---下载后可任意编辑三峡大坝英语导游词 Good morning , ladies and Gentlemen , Welcome to China! Welcome to Hubei Province! Today I am very pleased to show you Three Gorges of Yangtze River。 At first I’ll have a brief introduction of Yangtze River, the Yangtze River, the biggest river in China, the third longest in the World , starts with the Tuotuo River at the Roof of the World —Qinghai—Tibet Plateau , takes in countless rivers, and flows eastward across the interior of China 。 With an overall length of more than 6,300 kilometers, the Yangtze River, next only to the Amazon and the Nile , is the third biggest river in the world and is a cradle that breeds the ancient civilization of the Chinese nation。 When the Yangtze River reaches the eastern Sichuan Basin in southwest China , it cuts through the Wushan Mountain。 Here the river course suddenly narrows and the waters become turbulent。 Sheer cliffs and steep mountains rise on either side , creating one of nature's most fantastic sights。 The Three Gorges———Qutang, wuxia and 精品文档---下载后可任意编辑xiling————start just after Fengjie and end near Yichang, stretch about 200 kilometers 。 The Gorges vary from 300metres at their widest to less than 100 meters at their narrowest。 Qutang Gorge is the smallest and shortest Gorge, but grandest of the three 。 The Yangtze River , mighty and rapid here is suddenly contained like "a thousand seas poured into one cup", as the Song Dynasty poet SU Tungpo described the spectacle 。 High on the both bank , at a place called Bellows Gorge , are a series of crevices 。 This area is said to have been the home of an ancient tribe whose custom was to place t...