英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Ganges 恒河—35

 She didn't really have a why, an explaination about why she is going.There isn't the why, it's a practice which is going on and on and on, it's a practice, you have to go to Ganga Sagar once in your life time, that's it, that's the why.

India is changing, but i was struck by the fact that ancient religious beliefs still seem to be thriving, the country now has more than 3 million places of worship, but a shortage of hospitals and schools. I'd finally reached the end of the Ganges in the end of this part of my journey.

The river comes down here and merges¹ with the B gulf² and the Indian ocean, we are on the beach.

The Ganges was absolutely central to the development of civilization in India, i feel the river has now become a litmus test for India in the 21st century, if it can't protect its living Goddess from pollution, then what hope could it have of defeating corruption³, challenging the caste system or reducing poverty. The river Ganges worshipped from source to sea, like everything about India it's complicated, it's a holy river, but it could really do with the clean up, i love travelling along it, i can't wait for my other journeys along sacred rivers.

1 merges   

（使）混合( merge的第三人称单数 )； 相融； 融入； 渐渐消失在某物中

参考例句：

• The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". 2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言，他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
• A device that collates, merges, or matches sets of punched cards or other documents. 一种整理、合并或比较一组穿孔卡片或其它文档的设备。

2 gulf   

n.海湾；深渊，鸿沟；分歧，隔阂

参考例句：

• The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
• There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。

3 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。