高中英语课本必修四重点课文英汉对照高效辅导
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Module 5 A Trip Along the Three Gorges 三峡之旅
In August 1996, Peter Hessler, a young American teacher of English, arrived in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River.
He and a colleague were to spend two years there teaching English at a teacher training college.
They were the only foreigners in the town. The first semester finished at the end of January and they had four weeks off f or the Spring Festival.
They could go anywhere they wished. They decided to take a boat downstream.
We decided to buy tickets for the Jiangyou boat.
Our colleagues said, “You shouldn’t go on those ships. They are very crowded. They are mainly for goods and people trading along the river.
They don’t stop at the temples and there won’t be any other foreigners.” That sounded fine to me.
We just had to show our passports and they let us get on the boat.
We left the docks on a beautiful afternoon. The sun was shining brightly as we sailed downstream through a hilly region.
Men rode bamboo rafts along the river’s edge and coal boats went past.。

As the sun set we docked at Fengdu. We could see the sun setting behind the white pagoda. It was beautiful.
We slept through the first gorge, which is called the Qutang Gorge.
The gorge narrows to 350 feet as the river rushes through the tow-mile-high mountains.
“Oh, well,” my friend said, “at least we have two more left.”
At Wushan we made a detour up the Daning River to see some of the smaller gorges.
The next day we went through the ig gorges on the Yangtze River. It was a lovely morning as we went through the Wu Gorge.
We passed the Xiang River, home of Qu Yuan, the 3rd century BC poet. There was so much history long the Yangtze River.
Every rock looked like a person or animal, every stream that joined the great river carried its legends, every hill was heavy with the past.
As we came out of the third gorge, the Xiling Gorge, we sailed into the construction site of the dam.
All the passengers came on deck. We took pictures and pointed at the site, but we weren’t allowed to get off the boat.
The Chinese flag was blowing in the wind. On a distant mountain was a sign in 20-foot characters. “Build the Three Gorges Dam, Exploit the Yangtze River,” it said.。