A slow, sad drama unfolding on a remote island is providing a grim challenge to the National Park Service's traditional policy of letting nature take its course. Isle Royale in Lake Superior is home to the longest studied predator-prey relationship in
the world. For over sixty years biologists have been watching the island's moose and wolf populations, recording but not
interfering in their struggles. But now, the wolf population is doomed and the delicate island ecosystem is spinning out of
balance. It is time for NPS scientists to put down their notebooks and step in. It is time to save the wolves, and save the island.
What is the main function of the sentence “It is time for NPS scientists to put down their notebooks and step in," in the
paragraph?
It helps set the tone.
It introduces the topic / provides background information,
It hooks the reader
It presents the thesis.

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.