The Deepest Place on Earth

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Where is the deepest place on Earth? It is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which reaches a depth of about eleven kilometres. If you placed Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, into the trench, its peak would still be two kilometres underwater.

This deep world is a place of pitch-black darkness where not a single ray of sunlight penetrates. Moreover, the water pressure is about a thousand times greater than at the surface — strong enough to crush a human body in an instant. Astonishingly, living creatures still survive in this extreme environment. In fact, more people have travelled to the Moon than to the bottom of this trench.

Vocabulary from this story

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Trench
botiq, chuqurlik
reaches
yetadi
depth
chuqurlik
peak
choʻqqi
underwater
suv ostida
pitch-black
qop-qorongʻi
ray
nur
penetrates
kirib boradi, oʻtib boradi
pressure
bosim
crush
ezib tashlamoq
Astonishingly
hayratlanarlisi
survive
omon qoladi, yashaydi
extreme
oʻta ogʻir, ekstremal

Grammar from this story

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If + past, ... would + verb (second conditional)

Faraziy/xayoliy shart: agar ...sa edi, ... boʻlardi (hozir yoki umuman haqiqatga zid).

  • If you placed Everest here, its peak would still be underwater.
  • If I had more time, I would travel.

adjective + enough to + verb

...gulik darajada (yetarlicha) ... — natijani bildiradi.

  • The pressure is strong enough to crush a body.
  • He is old enough to drive.

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1. How deep is the Mariana Trench?

2. What is the environment at the bottom of the trench like?

3. What does the last sentence mainly emphasise?

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