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