Relacionar Columnas IV LEVEL UNIT 7 I AM FLUENT IN ENGLISH Lesson 4 AVersión en línea Reading comprehension por Martha Uribe 1 What did the caliph do with the chest? 2 What would happen to Ja’far if he didn’t solve it in the allotted time? 3 What did Ja’far do? 4 Where had the fisherman found it? 5 How long did the king give Ja’far to solve the mystery? 6 What happened on the third day? 7 What was inside the chest? 8 What did a fisherman bring to the caliph’s palace? 9 Who was the actual murderer? 10 Who did the king ask to investigate the murder? The woman’s husband. a large, heavy chest the body of a young woman who had been murdered He would be executed. three days He sat alone in his room and worried. 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. his vizier, Ja’far ibn Yahya 1 Why did he place her body in a chest and throw in the river? 2 What did the young man see in the market a few days after his return? 3 What had happened to the young man’s wife? 4 What did he do after killing his wife? 5 How did the young man react to the slave’s story? 6 Where did he get the apple? 7 What did she ask him for? 8 How long did the trip take? 9 How was his wife’s health by then? 10 Where did the slave say he got the apple? 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. two weeks to hide his deed 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. 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. 1 How many days did he give Ja’far? 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 What did the young man find upon his return? 5 What did he beg the caliph to do? 6 How did the young man feel? 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. accept that his fate was to die execute him There were no clues or hints about who he was. to have Ja’far find the slave who had caused so much tragedy instead. three days He would be executed. He regretted what he’d done. 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.
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