Relier Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 7 I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH Lesson 4 AVersion en ligne Reading comprehension par Martha Uribe 1 What did the caliph do with the chest? 2 What was inside the chest? 3 Where had the fisherman found it? 4 How long did the king give Ja’far to solve the mystery? 5 Who did the king ask to investigate the murder? 6 What did a fisherman bring to the caliph’s palace? 7 Who was the actual murderer? 8 What happened on the third day? 9 What did Ja’far do? 10 What would happen to Ja’far if he didn’t solve it in the allotted time? three days He would be executed. He sat alone in his room and worried. a large, heavy chest the body of a young woman who had been murdered in the Tigris River Two men came to the palace trying to confess to the murder. He bought it and ordered it to be pried open. The woman’s husband. his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya 1 How was his wife’s health by then? 2 Why did he place her body in a chest and throw in the river? 3 Where did the slave say he got the apple? 4 Where did he get the apple? 5 What did she ask him for? 6 What had happened to the young man’s wife? 7 What did the young man see in the market a few days after his return? 8 What did he do after killing his wife? 9 How long did the trip take? 10 How did the young man react to the slave’s story? from the caliph’s garden He went home to see how many apples were missing, and upon finding that one was missing, he killed his wife in a rage. a special kind of apple that could not be found in any market or shop. two weeks to hide his deed She had become ill and couldn’t eat well. a slave carrying one of the apples. She had become too ill to eat anything. from his girlfriend, whose husband had traveled two weeks to get it from the caliph’s garden. he hid his wife’s body in a chest and threw it into the river. 1 What did he beg the caliph to do? 2 How did the young man feel? 3 What did the caliph decide to do instead? 4 What would happen if Ja’far couldn’t find the slave after three days? 5 What did the young man find upon his return? 6 How many days did he give Ja’far? 7 What made finding the slave difficult? 8 Why was the boy crying? 9 What did Ja’far decide to do? his son crying in his room. There were no clues or hints about who he was. because he had taken one of the apples to the marketplace and had it stolen by the slave after telling him the story of how his father had gotten it. He would be executed. accept that his fate was to die to have Ja’far find the slave who had caused so much tragedy instead. He regretted what he’d done. execute him three days
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