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

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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
B) barefoot
C) bleeding
D) crutches
E) epidemics
F) erupted
G) injuries
H) itching
I) nightmare
J) particularly
K) similarly
L) tropical
M) troublesome
N) typical
O) widespread [br] 【C1】
选项
答案 D
解析 名词辨析题。分析句子结构可知，空格前的a complete travel与空格处构成名词短语，作developed into的宾语，因此空格处需要填名词。根据空格所在句可知，有人在海滩漫步后感觉发痒。接着本句后半句用but笔锋一转，提到在接下来的几天，发痒变成了一个彻头彻尾的旅行________。结合备选项，可以推断出nightmare“噩梦”符合题意，故为答案。
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