The following passage is adapted from the United States State Department.

(1) The scope and expense of invasive species in ecological and economic terms is enormous. (2) Estimates of the cost of invasive species to the United States alone are in the tens of billions of dollars yearly. (3) As trade, tourism, and transport increase, so too does the inadvertent movement of invasive species. (4) In response to growing public concern, a 1999 Executive Order established the National Invasive Species Council, which is comprised of representatives from 13 federal departments and agencies of the U.S. Government.



The writer is considering adding the following sentence to the paragraph after sentence 3.

Other international agreements that include provisions regarding invasive species include the Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement), Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).

Should the writer add this sentence to the paragraph? Why or why not?

(A) Yes, because the sentence introduces a new idea that will become important in the following sentences.

(B) Yes, because the sentence provides support for a previous claim.

(C) No, because the sentence disrupts the flow of the paragraph by introducing a loosely related idea.

(D) No, because the sentence should be placed somewhere else in the paragraph.