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The Grand Canal (大运河) is the mother river of Yangzhou. Today it is still an important way for people to t【小题1】. In the year AD 605, Emperor Yang ordered the canal to be dug. Digging such a long canal proved to be very d【小题2】. 3.6 million people worked on it and in less than a year many of them lost their lives. When the construction(工程) was c【小题3】, the journey from the north to the south became more direct. It was much e【小题4】for Emperor Yang to visit Yangzhou and he paid three visits to the city d【小题5】his life. In the year AD 618, Emperor Yang was killed by his followers in one of his palaces in Yangzhou, and the Sui Dynasty e【小题6】. Everyone complains that the Sui Dynasty ended because of the Grand Canal.
However, even today the Grand Canal s【小题7】plays an important role in travel. It is the l【小题8】canal in the world so far. It r【小题9】from Beijing to Hangzhou, covering a distance of nearly 1,800 kilometres and joining five r【小题10】including the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Every day, ships go up and down the canal, carrying things between the north and the south.