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1. Peter Parker, Spider-Man's hidden identitiy, acquires the ability of climbing walls and shooting webs from his _ _ _ _ _ _ after a mutant spider has bitten him.

3. The spiders in the world can devour up to 800 million _ _ _ _ _ _ of insects a year. They consume even more food than mankind.

Across

1. Spiders are not insects although they look like insects in many ways. A spider has two more legs than an insect, and has neither antennae (觸角) nor _ _ _ _ _ (翅膀).

2. Although most spiders have _ _ _ _ _ eyes, they are short-sighted. That means they cannot clearly see things that are far away.

4. Scientists in Sweden have found a way to produce synthetic spider silk for medical and industrial uses by using a technology that extracts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (蛋白質) from small creatures.

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■Glossary

acquire (v) 獲得

mutant (adj) (基因)突變的

short-sighted (adj) 近視的

[Smarties' Power English Vol 183]