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