World’s Tallest Bridge – level 1

14-09-2016 15:00

This news is about a bridge. It is new. It is in China. It connects two Chinese provinces. Without the bridge, a journey takes 4 hours. With the bridge, the journey takes only 1 hour.

The bridge is 565 metres above the ground. It is a suspension bridge. A suspension bridge is a type of bridge. The bridge in China is the tallest bridge in the world of this type.

The bridge opens before the end of the year. There are many tall bridges in the Chinese province.

Difficult words: connect (when something touches two things), journey (a trip, a way from one place to another), province (a big area of land).

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