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职称英语理工类 A 级阅读推断真题 　　为了更好的挂念考生备考职称英语，应届毕业生网小编为大家预备 了理工类 A 级阅读推断真题，期望对您通过 2018 年职称英语考试有所 挂念! ?　　New Understanding of Natural Silk#39;s Mysteries Could Lead to Stronger, Lighter Materials ?　　By Clay Dillow ?　　Natural silk, as we all know, has a strength that manmade materials have long struggled to match. In a discovery that sounds more like an ancient Chinese proverb than a materials science breakthrough, MIT researchers have discovered that silk gets its strength from its weakness. Or, more specifically, its many weaknesses. Silk gets its extraordinary durability and ductility from an unusual arrangement of hydrogen bonds that are inherently very weak but that work together to create a strong, flexible structure. ?　　Most materials -- especially the ones we engineer for strength -- get their toughness from brittleness. As such, natural silks like those produced by spiders have long fascinated both biologists and engineers because of their light weight, ductility and high strength (pound for pound, silk is stronger than steel and far less brittle). But on its face, it doesn#39;t seem that silks should be as strong as they are; molecularly, they are held together by hydrogen bonds, which are far weaker than the covalent bonds found in other molecules. ?　　To get a better understanding of how silk manages to produce such strength through such weak bonds, the MIT team created a set of computer models that allowed them to observe the way silk behaves at the atomic level. They found that the arrangement of the tiny silk nanocrystals is such that the hydrogen bonds are able to work cooperatively, reinforcing one another against external forces and failing slowly when they do fail, so as not so allow a sudden fracture to spread across a silk structure. ?　　The result is natural silks that can stretch and bend while retaining a high degree of strength. But while that#39;s all well and good for spiders, bees and the like, this understanding of silk geometry could lead to new mate