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It started with an itch after a stroll on a Caribbean beach, but in just a fe

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问题    It started with an itch after a stroll on a Caribbean beach, but in just a few days it had developed into a complete travel【C1】______In mid-January Eddie Zytner and Katie Stephens, a couple from Windsor, Ontario, went on a vacation to Punta Cana, a resort town on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic. At some point, they【C2】______they had been bitten by bugs during one of their walks because their feet wouldn’t stop【C3】______"We were scratching our toes for almost the duration of the trip," Zytner told CNN.
   It kept getting worse. Four days after they got back to Windsor, their feet swelled, then【C4】______into painful blisters, according to the couple’s Facebook posts. They could no longer wear socks or shoes and had to use【C5】______to walk. And they started to see scars,【C6】______that seemed to be the result of something tunneling through their flesh. After multiple trips to doctors, one made a correct, if disgusting, diagnosis: cutaneous larva migrans (皮肤幼虫 移行症), a medical term translated as "wandering larvae in the skin."
   According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the most common way to be infected is by walking【C7】______on contaminated soil. More than half a billion people across the world are infected with the parasites, which were once【C8】______in the United States, the CDC says. Parasitic worms "account for a major burden of disease worldwide."
   Stephens,【C9】______this month, now on the mend after taking anti-parasitic drugs, was doling out health advice for travelers wary of following in her swollen footsteps: Wear shoes. "To anybody traveling somewhere【C10】______, please be careful when in the sand and wear shoes!" she posted.
   A) assumed F) erupted K) similarly
   B) barefoot G) injuries L) tropical
   C) bleeding H) itching M) troublesome
   D) crutches I) nightmare N) typical
   E) epidemics J) particularly O) widespread [br] 【C8】
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答案 O
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