KiTank question 2/3:
READING PASSAGE 2
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below.
1. Because of its strength, majesty and fierceness, the lion is called the King of the Beasts. It and the tiger are the largest members of the cat family. A full-grown male lion, standing just over a meter high and weighing about 225 kilograms, may be more than 3 meters long from his nose to the tip of his tail.
2. Today the lion is generally thought of as an African animal, and lions are certainly much more common in Africa than anywhere else, but there are also a few in the west of India. Once they lived in Europe and the East as well, but they have now become extinct in these areas due to irresponsible human activities.
3. The lion can be told apart immediately from the lioness because of the enormous, heavy mane of
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