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...
