Discussion
Fill in each blank with the most appropriate option in sequence to make the passage meaningful.
Answer: D
The blanks are filled, in order, by birth, soul, he, sown, it, to.
Read the passage with them in: 'Our country gave birth to a mighty soul, and he shone like a beacon. And yet he was done to death. It could only occur because the seed for it was sown in the poison of hatred and enmity... it is the duty of all of us to fight this poison.' Each word is forced by the grammar. 'Gave birth' is the idiom and 'soul' is the noun a person can be called. 'And he shone' needs a subject pronoun for the one who was killed. 'Seed ... sown' is the standard pairing. 'It is the duty' needs a dummy subject, and 'to fight' is the infinitive after 'duty of all of us'.
Option A has 'berth' (a sleeping place) and 'sole' (a fish or a foot part). Option B has 'shoal' and 'shown', and 'this' cannot be the subject of 'shone'. Option C has 'they', which does not agree with the singular 'he' who was killed, and 'two' for 'to'. These are the homophone traps the question is built on.
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