单选题 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     27    . 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     28    they had been bitten by bugs during one of their walks because their feet wouldn't stop     29    . '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     30    into painful blisters, according to the couple's Facebook posts. They could no longer wear socks or shoes and had to use     31    to walk. And they started to see scars,     32    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     33    on contaminated soil. More than half a billion people across the world are infected with the parasites, which were once     34    in the United States, the CDC says. Parasitic worms 'account for a major burden of disease worldwide.'
    Stephens,     35    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     36    , 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
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【正确答案】I
【答案解析】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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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知,空格处作谓语,需要填动词的过去式,空格后为宾语从句。根据句意可知,这对夫妇______他们在一次散步时被虫子咬了。由之后的became可知,被虫子咬了是他们猜测的内容。结合备选项,可以推断出assumed“假定,认为”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】H
【答案解析】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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【正确答案】F
【答案解析】动词辨析题。空格前的then体现动作的先后顺序,由空格前的swelled推断,空格处需要填动词的过去式。根据句意可知,他们的脚先是肿了起来,然后是起了水泡。可见病情变得更为糟糕,脚肿后突然起了水泡。结合备选项,可以推断出erupted“突然发生”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】D
【答案解析】名词辨析题。根据句式use sth. to do sth. 可知,空格处需要填入名词。根据句意可知,他们不能再穿袜子或鞋子,并且只好使用______走路。结合备选项,可以推断出crutches“拐杖”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】G
【答案解析】名词辨析题。空格后面是that引导的定语从句,用来说明中心词的具体情况,故空格处应该填入名词作scars的同位语。根据句意可知,这对夫妇开始查看伤疤,______看起来是因为什么东西穿过他们的皮肉。空格处是scars的同位语,它们在意思上也应该相近。结合备选项,可以推断出injuries“受伤之处”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】副词辨析题。分析句子结构可知,空格处需要填入副词用以修饰walking,表示走路的状态。根据句意可知,这种疾病最常见的感染方式是______行走在受污染的土壤上。根据后文提到的旅行时要穿上鞋子的忠告,可以推测出感染是因为没有穿鞋行走在受污染的土壤上。结合备选项,barefoot“赤着脚地”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】O
【答案解析】形容词辨析题。空格位于which引导的定语从句中,为主系表结构,were后面应该是形容词。根据句意可知,全世界有超过5亿人感染上了这种寄生虫,可见它的普遍性。结合备选项,可以推测出widespread“分布广的”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】副词辨析题。空格所在部分位于句子中间,且用逗号与句子其他成分隔开作插入语,可以判断空格处应填副词。根据句意可知,斯蒂芬斯在服用了抗寄生虫药物后,状况得到了改善,这也发生在这个月。结合备选项,可以推测出similarly“同样地”符合题意,故为答案。
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【正确答案】L
【答案解析】形容词辨析题。空格前面是somewhere,空格处需要填形容词,作后置定语修饰somewhere。根据全文内容可知,这对夫妇是在热带地区旅行,常在加勒比海滩漫步,这里斯蒂芬斯建议旅行者在热带地区的沙滩上要穿鞋。结合备选项,可以推测出tropical“来自热带的”符合题意,故为答案。