三、克漏字測驗 When the United States first fired a missile from an armed Predator drone in Afghanistan on November 14,2001, it was clear that warfare had forever changed. During the two decades that followed, drones became the most
iconic__16__ of the war on terror. Highly sophisticated, multimillion-dollar US drones were repeatedly used in
targeted killing campaigns. But their use worldwide was__17__ powerful nations. Then, as the navigation
systems and wireless technologies in hobbyist drones and consumer electronics__18__ , a second style of military
drone appeared—not in Washington, but in Istanbul. And it caught the world’s __19__ in Ukraine in 2022, when
it proved itself capable of holding back one of the toughest militaries on the planet. The Bayraktar TB2 drone, a
Turkish-made aircraft from the Baykar corporation, marks a new __20__ in the still-new era of drone warfare.
Cheap, widely available drones have changed how smaller nations fight modern wars.
【題組】17.
(A) limited to
(B) in contrast with
(C) on top of
(D) separate from