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