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She pulled it, stretched it, and measured how much force it could take before snapping. Her findings stunned engineers: ounce for ounce, some spider silk is tougher than the steel used in bridges. That decoration draped across a doorway every Halloween is a cheap imitation of one of nature's finest materials. The real thing, spun in silence by a creature smaller than your thumb, has puzzled and impressed humans for centuries.  \nThat impressive strength begins not in a factory but in an organ most people have never heard of. Spiders produce silk in glands inside the abdomen and push it out through tiny nozzles called spinnerets, usually found in clusters of two to eight near the rear of the body. The silk leaves as a liquid protein and hardens into a solid thread the instant it meets the air and is pulled. What makes this remarkable is that a single spider can produce several different kinds of silk from the same body, each tuned for a different job. Some threads are dragline silk, strong enough to hold the spider's weight as it drops; others are stretchy and coated in glue.  \nThose two kinds of thread, the strong and the sticky, work as a team in the web you probably picture first: the orb web. An orb weaver builds it in stages, first laying down a frame and a set of spokes made from dry, non-sticky silk that the spider can safely walk on. Then it spirals inward, laying down a second thread studded with droplets of glue to catch flying insects. Here is the clever part: the spider remembers which threads are which, stepping only on the dry lines and avoiding its own trap. Building the whole structure can take under an hour, and many orb weavers tear it down and eat it each night to recycle the protein.  \nIf eating your own home sounds strange, consider that many spiders skip webbuilding entirely. Scientists estimate there are more than 45,000 known spider species, and only a fraction of them spin the classic orb. Wolf spiders chase down their prey on foot like tiny sprinters, while jumping spiders stalk and pounce, using excellent eyesight rather than a net. Trapdoor spiders build burrows with hinged lids and ambush whatever wanders past. This variety tells us something important: the web is a brilliant tool, but it is one strategy among many, not the definition of what a spider is.  \nWhatever hunting method they use, all these predators share a job humans rarely  \nthank them for: pest control. A single spider can eat hundreds of insects in a year, including mosquitoes, flies, and the aphids that damage crops. Researchers have estimated that the world's spiders together consume something on the order of 400 to 800 million tons of prey annually, a quantity that rivals what all humans eat in meat and fish. Without them, our homes and fields would be far buggier places. The spider in your basement corner, in other words, is less a monster than an unpaid exterminator.  \nThat gap between fear and fact is exactly why spiders make such interesting Halloween guests. We hang fake webs and plastic eight-legged decorations to feel a pleasant chill, borrowing the spider's spooky  \nreputation without meeting the real animal behind it. Yet the real animal is the more astonishing story: a chemist, an architect, and a hunter rolled into a body the size of a coin. Engineers today are still trying to copy spider silk in laboratories, hoping to make everything from surgical thread to bulletproof fabric. After millions of years of practice, the little weaver in the corner is still holding on to secrets our best scientists cannot fully unravel.  \nSpiders and Their Webs  \nName:  \n\n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) Which statement best expresses the central idea developed across the passage?\u003Cbr>A. 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