26-30: Choose the BEST answer for each blank in the passage. Two decades of analyses have produced rich insights as to how the law should be applied to
regulate the Internet’s peculiar characteristics. But, in the meantime, Internet-related technology has
not 26 . The same public and private institutions that developed the Internet, from the armed forces
to search engines, have 27 a significant shift toward developing robotics. An article to be
published in the upcoming issue of California Law Review discusses how the cyber-law and policy
should respond to the new transformative robotic technology. Robotics has essential qualities
different from those of the Internet, and accordingly will 28 distinct legal issues. For instance,
robotics combines, for the first time, the promiscuity of data with the capacity to do physical harm;
robotic systems accomplish tasks in ways that cannot be anticipated in advance; and robots
increasingly 29 the line between person and instrument. Nonetheless, robotics, being automatic
in nature, may still prove “exceptional” in the sense of 30 systematic changes to law, institutions,
and the legal academy.
【題組】 26.
(A) kicked off
(B) stood still
(C) played dead
(D) hanged loose
(E) caught up