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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] 【C3】
选项
答案 H
解析 动词辨析题。根据stop的固定用法stop doing sth.可知，空格处需要填动词的-ing形式。根据句意可知，这对夫妇猜测他们被虫子咬了，原因是他们的脚在不停地_________，结合备选项和首句提到的“发痒”，可以推断出itching“发痒”符合题意，故为答案。
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