Chinaisacountryofmanyresources.Amongitsresourcesaremanygreatriverswhichprovideusefultransportroutes.Watertransportisanefficientwaytocarryheavyloadssuchasgrain.Inancienttimesawaterwaywasneededbetween

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Chinaisacountryofmanyresources.Amongitsresourcesaremanygreat

rivers whichprovideusefultransportroutes.Watertransportisanefficientwayto

carryheavyloads suchasgrain.Inancienttimes awaterwaywasneededbetween

China’srichfarmlandsandthecapitalcity.Thisneedinspiredengineerstobuild

acanal.AccordingtowritingsbytheancientthinkerConfucius workonacanal

linkingtheYangzeRiverwiththecityofHuai-inbeganabout486B.C.Formany

centuriesafterward Chineseemperorsworkedonextendingthisancientcanal.

ThiscanalisnowknownasChina’sGrandCanal.Onethousandyearsafter

theoriginalcanalwasbegun itwasinextremeneedofrepair.Thiswasintheyear

607 duringtheSuiDynasty.By610theemperorhadhadthecanalextended.The

GrandCanalformedanortheast-southwestlinkbetweentheYellowRiverinthe

northandtheHuaiRiverinthesouth.Thecanalremainedthemainwaterwayin

thispartofChinaforthenextfivehundredyears.

Inthethirteenthcentury theMongolshadconqueredChina.TheYuan

DynastyestablishedBeijingasthecapital.Thecity’sgrowingpopulationneeded

food soanewcanalwasbuilttoextendshipping.BuildingthispartoftheGrand

Canalrequiredenormouseffortandcost.Neitherthefirstattemptnorthesecond

onewassuccessful sothebuilderschoseanotherroute.Finallythislinkinthe

GrandCanalwasfinished.

BythetimeoftheMingDynasty theGrandCanalhadsixsections.Thesewere

busywithcargountilthenineteenthcentury.Thenaseriesofseverefloodsstruck

China.PartsoftheGrandCanalwerebadlydamaged.By1868ithadbeenlargely

abandonedasameansofnorthernroute.

TheGrandCanalwasmostlyrestoredinthetwentiethcentury.Itwaswidened

anddeepened andanewsectionwasconstructed.Todaythecanal whichis

about1 200milesinlength hasnewlocks(运河的水闸).Itisbusywithshipsand

barges(驳船)carryinggoodstoandfromcitiesalongitsbanks.

60.TheGrandCanalwasfirstbuiltinancienttimestoprovide________.

A.watertransportbetweenfarmlandsandthecapital.

B.irrigation(灌溉)forfarmlands.

C.efficienttransportationfortheemperor’sarmy.

D.aconvenientwayfortheemperor’srecreation.

61.Thefirstlarge-scale(大规模的)repairoftheoriginalcanaloccurredinabout

________.

A.480B.C.     

B.607A.D.  

C.theYuanDynasty   

D.theMingDynasty

62.Fromthepassage onecanconcludethatancientengineerswhobeganthe

GrandCanal______.

A.workedwithlimitedknowledgeandskills.

B.foundabrilliantandlastingsolutiontotheirtransportationproblem.

C.weregivenagreatdealofmoneyfortheirachievement.

D.wereinspiredbytheancientthinkerConfucius.

63.Consideringitshistory onecanpredictthatinthefuturetheGrandCanalwill

probably______.

A.needtoberepairedandrebuilt.

B.changefromashippingroutetoarecreationarea.

C.beabandonedinfavorofairtransportandhighways.

D.beextendedtofurthernorthChina.

Answer 1

ABBA