Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

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acid. To all who didn't know him, Curt George was a mighty hunter and actor. But this time he was up against others who could really act, and shook as she said, "A drink—all the lions. How would you like to make faces at you? Always remember "Even lions, Miss Burton?" "Even lions." "But Mr. George shot lots of lions. Was he considerate of them too?" keep my eye on you if you get too far away from me. You, Hilda, give me that water pistol. No, don't fill it up first at that fountain. And Frances, stop Palit and Manto bringing up the "Charming," said Manto. "But do to avoid being suspected!" somewhat unpredictable, despite "Because they are not necessary. shaped the necessary coins with which to buy peanuts, and popcorn, and ice cream, and other by treating a few of the said Frances enviously. "Is he replied Manto carelessly. I have something to say to you. Soon it will be time to go in and hear Mr. George. Now, if Mr. George is so kind as to entertain us, don't you think that it's only proper for us to entertain him?" were left behind. At times the again, and not one was "Australia!" clanged the shrill with a pair of glittering The laughing, girlish eyes evaded Frances smirked at the approbation. Perhaps, Carolyn, you and Doris can do something together. And perhaps, too, Mr. George will be pleased to see that your teacher also has talent." "I don't know," said the other "Oh, Miss Burton," screamed some other teacher had been so "I don't see how they can take "Why go through with it at "Yes, yes, I know." lost!" around dressed as a lion hunter." "Why not? I've walked around "Drunks don't attract attention. They're too ordinary." "But a drunken lion hunter—that's something special." He went into the next room and began An outburst of shrill laughter. . Almost, anyway." will swoon at anybody. Besides, No one ever taught me how." "Some people manage without if I had a drink inside me." If she's going to be an actress, I'll bet she'd love to see Curt George!" "Well, after the way she's behaved, that would enable him to brave an accident. I won't do it again." "How do I look?" Mr. George. It's only two now, and we're not supposed to go to "I feel terrified. I don't know "Now, children, I've warned you about that. You mustn't annoy him. Mr. George is a famous movie actor, and his time is valuable. It's very kind of him health, children. They say he got jungle fever in Africa, where he was shooting all those lions, and rhinoceroses, and elephants for his new picture. That's why you mustn't bother him too much." hurt him to sign an autograph!" "Oh, yes, it would," asserted the presence of so many of the he has an attack of fever, his could exchange confidences without "Yes, Africa is a dangerous being noticed. Palit said savagely, said Miss Burton complacently. "So we must all remember how bravely Mr. George is fighting his misfortune, and do our best not to tire him out." "Why, because it's the truth. "Very well, Palit. Did I tempt He groaned dismally, and "Did you tempt me! You and without a drink to pick me up?" "You've had your drink," said How do they stand a lifetime "But those kids! They'll squeal shakes because of fever." "If the moon turns blue." He strode to the front of the platform, an elephant gun swinging from themselves. No drinks." easily at his side, an easy grin radiating from his confident, rose to a shrill fortissimo, but "Afterwards?" The contemptuous reply sent The two little girls drew apart "But if I proved to you that I There were a few laudatory references to his great talents as an your proposal afterwards." he took them. Then the old "Cold, suspicious, nasty—and the room, clearing away the dishes from his meager breakfast. "Was I humming?" "I thought I recognized it— But when I recall some of the "Can't you forget for a moment trail of a rogue elephant—" "No. Not unless you forget strange ways of lions. The elephant gun figured in still another tale, this time of a vicious rhinoceros. His audience was quiet now, breathless with interest, "Because you weren't there you as if you were shooting lions." looked sad and regretful. Thank God that's over with, he But it wasn't over with. Another old lady had stepped up on the platform. "Mr. George," she said, in a strangely affected voice, like that of the first dramatic teacher he had ever had, the one who had George, not a drop." almost ruined his acting career. "Mr. George, I can't tell you young and old. Hasn't Mr. George made us happy, children?" "Yes, Miss Burton!" came the shrill scream. how happy you have made us all, by giggles which made the entire from the others and began to "I'm sorry, Palit, but it was careless, Manto. You had no He hadn't expected this, and he repressed a groan. Mercifully, He grinned the thanks he didn't enough to make me resist." "Still, I thought I saw your That was the worst of all. He winced once, then bore up. You "They would have thought it him the horrors. But he thanked "I did it skillfully. Not a single person noticed." Come up here, Carolyn, come up, Doris. Carolyn and Doris, Mr. George, are studying how to act. They act people and Who knows? Some day they, too, may be in the movies, just as you are, Mr. George. Wouldn't that be nice, children?" What the devil do you do in a "What could possibly happen course—but what do you say, "I am not jittery in the least. us. And even if they did, they wouldn't be able to act rapidly Doris. "I don't know how to act. will be helpless before us." never did anything useful. Why, "The chance of being discovered. place quite by accident. No one Miss Burton had an idea. "I know what to do, children. If you can act animals—Mr. George has shown you what the hunter does how he felt. "They cannot possibly you're going to be lions. You are lions do. Yes, Carolyn and Doris, Crouch now, behind that chair. Closer and closer he comes—you act it out, Mr. George, please, that's the way—ever closer, and now your muscles tighten for would be easy to escape. I could as of thunder, crashed through bristles rose at the back of his were two lions, tensed as they are, how unafraid, how they were, eyes glaring, manes they were, with the threat of terror and helplessness on his Palit and Manto stared at each handsome, manly, and bloodless pounding fiercely, knees melting, face, heart unfrozen now and "What?" gun. The thought was like a director's command. With calm efficiency, with all the precision of 'No, Miss Burton.'" gun leaped to his shoulder, and now its own roar thundered out a challenge to the roaring of the wild beasts, shouted at them in thunder. The shrill screaming continued long after the echoes of the gun's speech had died away. Across great bodies, the bodies of lions, and yet curiously unlike the they were dead and dissolving as if corroded by some invisible

<question>:
Why did the lions Mr. George shot dissolve "as if corroded by some invisible acid?"

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A They were alien shapeshifters, not actual lions
B They were props during the shooting of one of Mr. George's movies
C It was a part of the stage show that Mr. George was putting on
D Mr. George used a gun with special bullets in it

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A