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[简答题]Inland Waterway Transport
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According to the passage, inland waterway travel was most popular in the early 1800s.
[判断题]FCA can be used only for sea or inland waterway transport.( )
[填空题]Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was called "a broken promise" became______.
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Though inland waterways were important transportation system, they were soon replaced by the more convenient railroads.
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Transport and Trade
1. Transport is one of the aids to trade. By moving goods from places where they are plentiful to places where they are scarce, transport adds to their value. The more easily goods can be brought over the distance that separates producer and consumer, the better for trade. When there were no railways, no good roads, no canals, and only small sailing ships, trade was on a small scale.
2. The great advances made in transport during the last two hundred years were accompanied by a big in crease in trade. Bigger and faster ships enabled a trade in meat to develop between Britain and New Zealand, for instance. Quicker transport makes possible mass-production and big business, drawing supplies from, and selling goods to, all parts of the global. Big factories could not exist without transport to carry the large number of workers they need to and from their homes. Big city stores could not have developed unless cus