○  i love the beauty of changjiang gorges  ○

 

“三峡情”英语演讲稿
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本文是作者所在学校举行“三峡情”英语演讲竞赛中获二等奖的一篇演讲稿。文中描述和议论得体，词汇也用得较为丰富，只是某些句子结构过于复杂，可能会给听众理解带来困难。某些语言上的不足之处点评修改如下：
(1)改为不定式表示目的较好。
(2)这里应该用主动语态。
boys and girls,
the three gorges area,  on the changjiang river,  stretched from fengjie of sichuan province east to yichang of hubei province, a total of 193 km. the qutang gorge is from baidicheng to daxi brook, the wu gorge is from the wu mountain to badong, and the xiling gorge, from zigui to nanjinguan pass. the voyage through the three gorges is an unforgettable experience. the river winds its way through countless valleys, around steep peaks,  over crucial rapids and whirlpools,  like a picturesque corridor(画廊), presenting changing scenery all the way.
whether in the past or at present, at home or abroad, tourists take pride in paying a visit to them,  poets write poems and songs about them, and artists paint them in pictures.   libai, a famous poet of tang dynasty, described the scene as follows： while the monkeys on both banks are still gibbering in your ears, away has the boat flown past tens of thousands of hills. he said so showing [to show](1)how powerful and rapid the currents are! actually it sometimes takes hours for a boat to round a turn in the cliffs so sharp that one can see no opening for the river course, and that one has little sun on his way through the gorges.
the old gorges have taken on a new look. navigation (航行)through the changjiang gorges has been enormously improved since the liberation, 1949. you can see different kinds of ships, such as steamships, sailing boats, tugs, barges, life boats and airships, sailing up and down the gorges. from time to time, handsome modern passenger ships, painted white or some other colour, with wonderful superstructure, fitted with all sorts of up-to-date equipment like searchlights, radar, depth indicator, 1400-horsepower twin diesel engines, and radio telephones between ship and

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