Answer:
A. need
Explanation:
It is the one that flows best when speaking the sentence out loud.
Answer: The 16th-century Spanish conquistador and explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519) helped establish the first stable settlement on the South American continent at Darién, on the coast of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1513, while leading an expedition in search of gold, he sighted the Pacific Ocean.
Explanation:
Christmas is the object of the preposition for, in that sentence.