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