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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  1.  . In the year AD 605, Emperor Yang ordered the canal to be dug. Digging such a long canal proved to be very d   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 3.    , the journey from the north to the south became more direct. It was much e  4.   for Emperor Yang to visit Yangzhou and he paid three visits to the city d   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   6.   . Everyone complains that the Sui Dynasty ended because of the Grand Canal.

However, even today the Grand Canal s   7.   plays an important role in travel. It is the l  8.   canal in the world so far. It r   9.   from Beijing to Hangzhou, covering a distance of nearly 1,800 kilometres and joining five r   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.