Relier Pairs IV LEVEL UNIT 7 I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH Lesson 4 AVersion en ligne Reading comprehension par Martha Uribe 1 What would happen to Ja’far if he didn’t solve it in the allotted time? 2 What was inside the chest? 3 What did the caliph do with the chest? 4 How long did the king give Ja’far to solve the mystery? 5 What did Ja’far do? 6 Who was the actual murderer? 7 Who did the king ask to investigate the murder? 8 What happened on the third day? 9 What did a fisherman bring to the caliph’s palace? 10 Where had the fisherman found it? the body of a young woman who had been murdered a large, heavy chest He would be executed. He bought it and ordered it to be pried open. three days in the Tigris River He sat alone in his room and worried. his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya The woman’s husband. Two men came to the palace trying to confess to the murder. 1 What did she ask him for? 2 Where did the slave say he got the apple? 3 What had happened to the young man’s wife? 4 How long did the trip take? 5 Where did he get the apple? 6 What did he do after killing his wife? 7 How was his wife’s health by then? 8 How did the young man react to the slave’s story? 9 What did the young man see in the market a few days after his return? 10 Why did he place her body in a chest and throw in the river? from his girlfriend, whose husband had traveled two weeks to get it from the caliph’s garden. to hide his deed from the caliph’s garden he hid his wife’s body in a chest and threw it into the river. 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. a special kind of apple that could not be found in any market or shop. She had become ill and couldn’t eat well. two weeks She had become too ill to eat anything. 1 What did Ja’far decide to do? 2 Why was the boy crying? 3 What would happen if Ja’far couldn’t find the slave after three days? 4 How many days did he give Ja’far? 5 What did the young man find upon his return? 6 How did the young man feel? 7 What made finding the slave difficult? 8 What did he beg the caliph to do? 9 What did the caliph decide to do instead? 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 regretted what he’d done. execute him accept that his fate was to die He would be executed. to have Ja’far find the slave who had caused so much tragedy instead. three days
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