Question

Please read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows. Thankyou!

[1] Being a good reader is somewhat like driving a car; both reader and driver must learn to shift gears skillfully. [2] Just as road conditions that require slow, careful driving call for first gear, a difficult text requires slow, thoughtful reading to be understood and remembered. [3] Similarly, the driver can shift to second gear if he wants to go slightly faster. [4] Second gear is useful to a reader of textual material which is not difficult but which must be remembered. On the open road a driver shifts to third. [5] Third gear in reading is used for pleasure reading of magazines or novels. [6] Both reader and driver sometimes use passing gear. [7] This gear is particularly useful to a reader who wants to skim a chapter as a review for a test or to preview an article to determine whether he wishes to read it. [8] Just as driving in first gear at all times is inappropriate and inefficient, reading speeds must be shifted to suit conditions.
What is the topic sentence? 1 ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or none

Answer 1

the correct answer is one.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The correct answer is 1. Being a good reader is somewhat like driving a car; both reader and driver must learn to shift gears skillfully.

Explanation

A paragraph is composed of a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion. The topic sentence is the main idea of the text, it contains the main topic of the paragraph and opens the text; supporting details, as its name implies, is information that supports the main topic with new information and describes relation with other topics; conclusion is the final part of the paragraph and contains the conclusion, for example, a teaching or a reflection, also closes the main topic. From the above, the topic sentence is "Being a good reader is somewhat like driving a car", because introduces the main topic of the paragraph and opens the text. So, the correct answer is 1. Being a good reader is somewhat like driving a car; both reader and driver must learn to shift gears skillfully.