IV. Read the text and choose the best option to answer the question. The building of the canals In 1761 an artificial waterway opened. It joined a coal-mining area with the port of Manchester. This was England’s first man-made gateway or ‘canal’ . Soon the price of coal in this part of the country went down, and the owners of the Bridgewater canal became rich. In the late 18th century landowners and businessman built many new canals to make money. There was no canals plan for the country, but the canals completely changed the transport of heavy goods in England. Prices of factory goods went d own 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 important part of the Industrial Revolution in Bristish, but canals had only a short life. In the mid 19th century the new railways became the most modern form of transport. The men who built the canals were called ‘navvies’. They moved around country in groups from canal to canal. Ordinary people did not like the navvies, because they wore strange clothes, had no real homes, and because they drank too much beer. The Nottingham and Beeston Canal had two parts. It opened in 1796 and was an important six–mile link in the Trent Navigation- a system of canals and rivers which joined the Midlands with the River Humber and the port of Hull. This carried goods from inland factories to the sea. Now it is no longer a working canal. It is a place for people who like walking or fishing. 1. Why did the price of coal round Manchester decrease? …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2. Why didn’t people like the canal builders? …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. What did the boats on this canal carry? ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4. Why was a waterway from Midland to Hull important? ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5. Why did the net work of canals become less important in a short time? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… ( giúp mik vs akj)