PART 7. Fill in each blank of the following passage with one suitable word in the box(3m)
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In 1761, an artificial waterway……………1……... It joined a coal-mining area with the port of Manchester. This was England’s first man-made waterway, or ‘canal’. Soon the price of coal in this part of the country went down, and the owner of the Bridgewater canal became rich.In the late 18th century landowners and ………2……. built many new canals to make money. There was no canal plan for the country, but the canals ……3…….. changed the transport of heavy goods in England. Prices of factory goods went down because transport cost less than before. One horse could now pull 50 tons on a canal boat. Before, it could pull less than one ton on a road cart. The canal network was a very……………..4…… part of the ………5……….Revolution in Britain, but canals had only a short life. In the mid 19th century, the new railways became the most …………6……………. form of transport.
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