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