30. In this passage, what does the term "coalescence" refer to
(A) The gathering of small clouds to form larger clouds
(B) The growth of droplets
(C) The effect of gravity on precipitation
(D) The movement of dust particles in the sunlight
People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skill of children develop so early
and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding
their growth. Not long after learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive
accuracy---one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for each of the five chairs. Soon they are
capable of noting that they have placed five knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a hit
later, that this amounts to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastered addition, they
move on to subtraction. It seems almost reasonable to expect that if a child were secluded on a
desert island at birth and retrieved seven years later, he or she could enter a second-grade