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A Lion Cub in London

1 When a video went viral and was watched by over 100
million people on social media, an incredible true story of
a lion and two Australian young men, John Rendall and
Anthony Ace Bourke, revealed after forty years.

2 In 1969, after graduating from college in Australia, the
two men moved to London and started to work at an antique
furniture shop which was ironically called SophistoCat. One day,
a friend of theirs told them amazing things about a prestigious department store in London. They
were very keen to see that unique place in which exotic animals were being sold, such as alligators,
elephants, and camels. When they got to the store, they were shocked to see a three-month-old
lion cub—they named him Christian—inside a small cage. John said, “It was an irresistible sight;
the moment we saw him, we couldn’t help thinking of doing something better for him.” Without any
hesitation, they bought the cub and took him to their apartment.
3 Christian was then the famous and beloved resident of King’s Road, but he was growing bigger,
and their small apartment was not convenient for such a giant pet anymore, and therefore, they had
to make a new place for him in the basement of the antique shop. Coincidentally, Virginia McKenna
and Bill Travers, the stars who had portrayed the Adamsons in the movie Born Free, visited their shop
and saw Christian. Bill convinced the two young men that the best thing for Christian was to return
him to the wild. With the help of a wildlife conservationist, George Adamson—the source of inspiration
for the movie Born Free—they managed to get in touch with Kenyan Wildlife Services to introduce
Christian to Africa. Everything went as planned, and Bill Travers funded the costs of sending him to
Kenya. It took Adamson a year to rehabilitate and acclimate the inexperienced lion to his new habitat
and released him into the wild.
4 One year later, John and Anthony went to Kenya to see Christian, but they were told that he
would probably not remember them. Anyway, they walked in his territory, and after a while, Christian
appeared on the top of a hill. He ran towards them with great excitement and then jumped into their
arms and hugged the two men. John said that if they hadn’t made the decision to buy Christian and
take him to Kenya, the trust would not really have existed.

5. Skim the text and write the main idea of the text.

6. Read the text and write a main conclusion for each paragraph below.
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7. Tick (√) the following statements that can be inferred from the text.

1 Selling and owning a lion was legal in those years.
2 They bought the lion cub because they were keen on exotic animals.
3 They bought Christian to give him a better life.
4 Returning him to the wild took a lot of time, effort, and money.
5 He adapted quickly to his new environment.

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