Giant Truck with 308 Wheels Travels Across India
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A very big truck has come to Uttar Pradesh in India. The truck has 308 wheels. This is very unusual. Most trucks have only six or ten wheels.
The truck carries a huge vessel. A vessel is a big metal container. It is used in a sugar mill. The vessel is very heavy. It weighs about 180 tons.
The vessel came from Belgium, a country in Europe. It travelled to Odisha first. Then it went through Jharkhand and Bihar. After that, it reached Uttar Pradesh.
The vessel will go to a sugar mill in Lakhimpur. This is a town in Uttar Pradesh. The police helped the truck move safely. They controlled traffic on the roads.
People stopped to watch the truck. They took photos of the huge machine. It was a very special sight for many people.
Vocabulary15 words
- truck
- a big vehicle that carries heavy things
- vessel
- a large container used to hold or move things
- police
- people whose job is to keep order and help
- wheel
- a round part that helps a vehicle move
- sugar mill
- a factory that makes sugar
- heavy
- having a lot of weight
- unusual
- not normal; different from most things
- traffic
- cars and vehicles moving on roads
- country
- a nation, like India or Belgium
- machine
- a big device that does work
- town
- a small city
- safely
- without danger
- special
- not ordinary; important
- metal
- a hard material, like iron or steel
- reach
- to arrive at a place
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1. 308 2. A sugar mill vessel 3. True
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A very big _____ has come to Uttar Pradesh in India.
The truck has _____ wheels.
The truck carries a huge _____.
It weighs about _____ tons.
The vessel came from _____, a country in Europe.
It travelled through Jharkhand and _____.
The vessel will go to a sugar mill in _____.
The _____ helped the truck move safely.
People took _____ of the huge machine.
It was a very _____ sight for many people.
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