Directions: Make connections by expressing your opinion based on the given social issue in 2 to 5 sentences.
1. In India, the birth of a male child is celebrated with great ardour and
lavished ceremonies while the birth of a female child is treated as a disgrace.
And also, the girls in India are even forced to drop out of school and are
restricted from pursuing higher studies because they are considered as a
burden and objectified. (UNICEF)

India has a traditional custom of discrimination base on gender, considering females not only as a disgrace at birth but also preventing them from developing an academic career.

Explanation:

The obstacles women have to face are probably also preventing them from holding political roles that could grant them the power to change their place in the social structure.

And those who do hold the power to do so, men that have always benefited from the gender bias, are less likely to have any interest in making changes.  

a because they still enjoy the fire.

explanation:

the correct answer is a. he fairs had detailed, specific rules about what merchants could sell and how they could sell it. despite the fact that all the other answers have relevant details, they make inferences based on the passage that lacks all relevant information to support them. only the answer a makes no inferences, and can be supported by this part of the passage: "the fairs were very well organized. they featured covered galleries so that merchants could buy and sell even if rain came drumming down; cellars were so large, they resembled underground cities. at the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold."