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