Questions 26-30 refer to the following passage. PASSAGE 2        George Gordon Byron was born in London on 22 January 1788 with a deformed foot, the nature of which has been disputed. His father, who died when Byron was three years old, labelled his son “club- footed” and evidence from several sources strongly supports that assessment. His mother's description of him aged four, which indicated that his foot “turns inward [...] and he walks quite on the side of his foot,” is consistent with the diagnosis of congenital talipes equinovarus, or clubfoot. In fact, talipes in Latin means “to walk on the ＿＿＿”.        Talipes equinovarus, a congenital abnormality recognized since antiquity, occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 of live births, affects males about twice as frequently as females, and involves both feet in about one half of cases. When unilateral, it is more common on the right than the left. 
       When George Gordon Byron was aged ten, he became Lord Byron, inheriting the title of the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale after his great-uncle died. He and his mother moved to Nottingham, near the decaying and debt-ridden estate of Newstead Abbey which he also inherited. There she employed a man known from our sources only by his surname, Lavender, who claimed an ability to cure her son's deformity. Listed in the Nottingham directory as a surgeon, he was actually a maker of medical appliances for the general hospital. His excruciating regimen was to rub Byron's foot with oil, twist it, and screw it up in a wooden contraption. His tutor remarked one day how uncomfortable he felt observing his student in such pain.“Never mind, Mr. Rogers,” Byron replied, “you shall not see any signs of it in me.”
       When Byron was taken to London in 1799, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761-1823) thought that early treatment might have greatly or wholly corrected the deformity, but by this time it was too late. Nevertheless, he had the bonesetter Timothy Sheldrake make some instruments for Byron's foot. These were shortly abandoned, however, and he received a boot instead. Later that year, Sheldrake constructed a device that Baillie had designed to straighten the foot. Byron wrote: "My foot goes but indifferently. I cannot see any alteration."        Sheldrake reported that he made plaster casts of the deformity and, in his 1828 account in the medical journal Lancet, appended drawings of them. They indeed indicate a clubfoot, but on the left, not the right, suggesting that the figures were inaccurate, from another patient, or, in fact, genuine representations of Byron's foot, reversed because of the engraving process, which creates mirror images of the original drawings. Shortly before Byron's death in 1824 in Greece, Dr Julius Millingen (1800-78), although also misidentifying which side was affected, commented: “The foot was deformed and turned inwards； and the leg was smaller and shorter than the sound one [...] [T]here can be little or no doubt, that he was born club-footed.”
【題組】26. Based on Byron's mother's description of his deformed foot in paragraph 1, talipes in Latin is most likely to mean "to walk on the ＿＿＿" in English. What is the most appropriate answer to the blank?
(A) soles
(B) heels
(C) ankles
(D) toes
(E) knees