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30.What is Sanjeev Bahl's attitude to the robotic machines?A.Tolerant.B.Suspicious.31.What is the main idea of the text?C.Conservative.D.Approving.A.Robots are as intelligent as humans.B.Robots are not to replace sewing workers.C.Companies develop robots to make clothes.D.Companies increase the production of clothes.DDrought is typically thought of as a simple lack of rain and snow.But evaporativedemand-a term describing the atmosphere's capacity to pull water from the groundisalso a major factor.Evaporative demand can be thought of as a“laundry-drying quotient(指数)”，Nevada,aclimatologist,explains,"When hanging the laundry or washing outside,we know that tsging to dry best and fastest if it's warm,sunny,windy and dry."Study lead author Albanosays,"This quotient does not simply increase upward alongside climate warming:it inereasesexponentially.With a one-to-two-degree rise in temperature,we're getting much largerincreases in evaporative demand.A new study shows the atmosphere over much of the US has grown a lot thirstier overthe past 40 years.To measure how atmospheric thirst has been changing,Albano and her col-leagues examined five data sets covering 1980 to 2020 that included temperature,wind speed,solar radiation and humidity ()-all of which contribute to evaporative demand.Theyfound the biggest US increases occurred over southwestern states,while rising humidity offsethigher temperatures in the east.In the Rio Grande region,the atmosphere needed 135 to 235millimeters more water annually in 2020 than it did in 1980,an 8 to 15 percent increase.Thatwater vaporized instead of watering crops.Along with higher temperatures and lower humidity,the study also noted rising windspeeds and increasing solar radiation.In very dry regions,humidity declines as temperatureswarm.Albano says she is not yet sure why the sunlight and wind are changing.Rising evaporative demand adds to the pressure as the west continues to endure the greatdrought conditions that have not been seen for 1,200 years.The increase contributed to lowspring runoff from the Sierra Nevada in 2021,when much less stream water came from snowthan predicted.A thirstier atmosphere also dried out western forests,leading to larger wildfires"The study shows that resource managers really have to think a lot about how we makesure that we're controlling the amount of water that we're all using,"says Caroline,a Colum-bia scientist.32.What do Nevada and Albano both try to do in paragraph 2?A.Illustrate a term.B.Define the atmosphere.C.Explain a cause of the temperature change.D.Describe the phenomenon of global warming.【高三英语第6页（共10页）】·23-410C·