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