Sinkhole on a Farm – level 3

09-05-2018 15:00

A huge 200-metre-long and 20-metre-deep sinkhole appeared on a farm in New Zealand. That is the equivalent of two football fields and a six-storey building.

A worker stumbled upon it before dawn while rounding up cows for milking. Experts said that the cavity would have been present from rainfall for over 100 years.

Difficult words: huge (very big), equivalent (something similar), stumble upon (come across, discover by chance), cavity (a space).

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