英语听力：自然百科 圣河之旅 The Ganges 恒河—2

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 Can India's great river and a culture more than 3,500 years old survive the pressures of the 21st century? And there it is, the holy Ganges, it's a river that is revered¹ as a Goddess, the reason i'm starting my journey here is because above this point these two rivers are known by their local names, it's the town of D where they converge² that this officially becomes the mighty³ sacred Ganges, central to my desire to make this journey like to make the series of journeys along sacred rivers, it's a realization⁴ that if I want to really understand a country that I have to understand the faith and the beliefs of the people who live there, India is an emerging economic superpower, it's going to be the most populous⁵ country in the world for what its people really think and believe.