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